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What’s at stake for the environment in Chile’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 13 Nov 2025
Ofelia Samboni an Indigenous Yanacona member and landowner in Monclart, holds a stone containing copper. The stone was found in the river close to the mining area. Image by Antonio Cascio for Mongabay.

‘Clean energy is just one driver of mining’: Cleodie Rickard on critical minerals

Aimee Gabay 13 Nov 2025
Communities in the Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin have activities such as livestock farming, agriculture, crafts and tourism. Image courtesy of Clemente Flores.

Lithium mining may threaten a precious resource — water: Voices from the land (commentary)

Clemente Flores 27 Oct 2025
Vilma de Callata, 45, draws water for her animals in Tusaquillas, Jujuy Province, Argentina, Sunday, April 23, 2023. Her native Kolla people have spent centuries climbing deep into the mountains of northern Argentina in search of a simple substance: Fresh drinking water. Image by Photo/Rodrigo Abd.

In Argentina, lithium exploration proceeds amid community disputes

Aimee Gabay 10 Sep 2025
Workers perform maintenance next to pools of brine slowly turning into lithium at the Albemarle lithium mine in Chile's Atacama desert. Photo by: AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd.

Lithium mining leaves severe impacts in Chile, but new methods exist: Report

Aimee Gabay 10 Sep 2025
The Andean cat is a rare and endangered species highly specialized to life in the high Andes. It’s estimated that around 2,000 mature individuals, living in fragmented populations, are spread very thinly over a vast alpine expanse in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2025

Private financing for Argentina’s lithium is anything but green, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 1 Jul 2025

UN scientists propose ‘minerals trust’ to power green energy, protect communities

Bobby Bascomb 7 Jun 2025

US firm KoBold Metals buys stake in contested Manono Lithium Project, DRC

Bobby Bascomb 28 May 2025
A towering tailings pile sits directly behind a residence in Poço Dantas. Image by Rebeca Binda.

In Brazil’s Jequitinhonha valley, communities share how to reduce lithium mining impacts

Amanda Magnani, Rebeca Binda 30 Apr 2025
A flamingo in Salar de Uyuni, southwestern Bolivia.

Bolivian communities push back against foreign-backed lithium projects

Carla Ruas 17 Apr 2025

Lithium Triangle mining may strain water sources more than expected, study says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Apr 2025

As lithium mining bleeds Atacama salt flat dry, Indigenous communities hit back

Barinia Montoya 20 Dec 2024

Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Dec 2024

Push for traceability of critical minerals gains traction at COP29

David Akana 20 Nov 2024

Locals in Jequitinhonha Valley report health issues after arrival of lithium mine

Caio Guatelli 18 Nov 2024
Aerial view of the Manono concession area. Image by AVZ (Fair Use).

Disputed Manono lithium mining project in DRC sparks concern

Didier Makal 8 Aug 2024

Sweeping reform package threatens environmental protections in Argentina, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jun 2024
The James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green credentials of electric vehicles come under fire

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 23 May 2024

Rapid growth of Bolivia’s lithium industry creating new problems for local communities

Maxwell Radwin 15 Apr 2024

Locals slam Zimbabwe for turning a blind eye to Chinese miner’s violations

Tatenda Chitagu 1 Apr 2024
At a mining site in Uis, Namibia.

Report: Rush for ‘clean energy’ minerals in Africa risks repeating harmful extractivist model

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Dec 2023
Communal potato harvest in Covas do Barroso, Portugal

A lithium ‘gold mine’ is buried under one of Europe’s last heritage farming systems

Marta Vidal 11 Dec 2023
Aerial view of a road.

Study: Tricky balancing act between EV scale-up and mining battery metals

Liz Kimbrough 8 Sep 2023
An electric car charging.

Bangladesh to produce lithium batteries, electric vehicles to cut emissions

Abu Siddique 28 Aug 2023
Aerial view of the mine and stockyard of Vale's S11D Complex in Pará State. Image by Ricardo Teles for Agência Vale.

Can Lula balance the transition to renewable energy with Amazon mining expansion? (commentary)

Gabriela Sarmet and Christian Poirier 2 Aug 2023
People protesting against fossil fuels and related pollution in Africa.

Element Africa: A lawsuit over oil, deaths over mining, and worries over lithium

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2023

Bolivia looks to opaque methods, firms to build lithium powerhouse

Ian Morse 12 Dec 2022

Five pressing questions for the future of lithium mining in Bolivia

Maxwell Radwin 12 Dec 2022
Raphael Mapou, Kanak leader who established the environmental organization Rhéébù Nùù. Image courtesy of Lachie Carracher.

Nickel, Tesla and two decades of environmental activism: Q&A with leader Raphaël Mapou

Nick Rodway 22 Jun 2022
The Goro Mine in southern New Caledonia. Image courtesy of Lachie Carracher.

All eyes on Tesla as it invests in a troubled nickel mine

Nick Rodway 22 Jun 2022

Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await

Claire Asher 15 Mar 2022

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