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

Residents living near a mine contracted respiratory illnesses following continued exposure to sulfur dioxide gas, a US ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Air monitoring indicated levels of sulfur dioxide “well in excess” of international standards, says Environmental Investigation Agency US.

Illicit mining caused the landslide on March 11 that “led to fatalities and injuries,” its unit Boss Mining said.

LONDON (Reuters) – Blockchain is to be used for the first time to try to track cobalt’s journey from artisanal mines in Democratic Republic of Congo through to products used in smartphones and ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. KINSHASA: Cobalt used in batteries for phones, laptops and electric vehicles could come ...

Some three quarters of the word’s supply of cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where children as young as 10 years old help extract the metal from hand dug shafts in the ...