By now, if you’ve spent any time at all on social media platforms researching Japan trips, you’ve probably seen your feed ...

according to the country’s onsen law, which also specifies several kinds of minerals the water must contain. The number of foreign visitors to the country hit an all time high of 36.8 million ...

The joint economic investment deal announced Wednesday that gives the U.S. access to Ukrainian minerals may provide Ukraine with more support for its defense against Russia. But it also comes at a ...

The ask comes after China curbed exports of some of those minerals as part of its retaliation against American tariffs. China dominates the rare earth mineral market, mining about 60% of the world ...

But these “green” technologies depend on the mining of critical minerals, which comes with environmental costs. Biology, she and her colleagues believed, could be a solution. They were ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. TThe world is on the brink of a ...

Governments around the world are increasingly competing for so-called “critical” minerals. The United States, the European Union, and China have all recently negotiated agreements with ...