It would be disingenuous to attempt to disentangle the human rights abuses connected to creating technologies from their ...

Earlier this week, six U.S. tech companies were named in a lawsuit that accuses them of endangering the lives of child laborers in the mining of cobalt for their products. Child labor is frequently ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is rich with lithium, an essential mineral for electric car batteries. JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP—Getty Images In crude mines across Central and Sub-Saharan Africa, hands that ...

The deep ocean covers most of the planet. Gerard Barron wants his company to be the first to mine it. That's been his dream since 2001, when Barron's then-tennis partner asked him to invest in a first ...

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to whales. The long-term effects of these extractions remain uncertain Amber X.