Extracting resources from the Earth always comes with costs. As we race toward a cleaner, greener future, there is a risk of ...

Australian mining tycoon Andrew Forrest, founder and executive chairman of Fortescue, says Big Oil is getting it wrong on ...

Growing weed inside uses about 1 percent of U.S. energy and pollutes more than cryptocurrency mining. There’s a better way to ...

A more realistic view of converting 40% of iron ore output to green iron by 2050 still yields an impressive value of around ...

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...

Bitcoin mining provides a temporary economic use for surplus renewable energy, but reduces the incentives to invest in grid ...

Greenwashing regulations are sprouting up faster than organic kale. From the E.U.’s Green Claims Directive to Australia’s ...

As renewable energy gathers steam around the world, the harms of mining its mineral components continue to grow. On the environmental front, for example, there’s the destruction of Indonesian ...

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. While “there’s a lot of room ...

The mining and geology community should embrace new techniques and adhere to relevant laws and regulations to ensure systematic mine development and effective mineral conservation, said G.C. Sethi, ...

Cryptocurrency, sometimes referred to as crypto, refers to money in any digital or virtual form that uses cryptography to ...