Smartphones, computers and electric vehicles may be emblems of the modern world, but, says Siddharth Kara, their rechargeable batteries are frequently powered by cobalt mined by workers laboring in ...

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An estimated 40,000 children work in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the source of over half of the world’s supply. In Madagascar, an estimated 10,000 children mine for mica.

Emissions surged after the processing facility opened to produce critical mineral for electric-car batteries, an environment ...

A new investigation alleges pollution, illness and displacement around one of the world’s largest cobalt operations, raising ...

KINSHASA, Congo - Intense activities at Copper and Cobalt mining sites contributes to high cases of birth defects among children in the mineral-rich DR Congo, a research conducted by top universities ...

When the earth caved in eastern Congo last week, more than 200 Congolese miners were buried alive. Those who survived spent ...

Along the 63-mile highway between the towns of Kolwezi and Fungurume sit two towering symbols of China’s stranglehold over resources in the southeast corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo: huge ...

Congo’s Mines Ministry said about 70 children were among the victims.