3+ hour, 35+ min ago  (867+ words) The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday weakened pollution limits for coal-burning power plants, allowing them to release more heavy metals including mercury, a powerful neurotoxin linked to brain damage. The move was one of many efforts by the Trump administration…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (458+ words) Bitcoin is crashing hard, reaching historic lows of well below the $70,000 mark. At the time of writing, the token is hovering just above $63,000, levels we haven't seen since October 2024. The ongoing plunge has made it far less economical to mine…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (807+ words) The Trump administration wants to create a critical minerals trading bloc with its allies that will use tariffs to maintain price floors and defend against China's tactic of flooding the market to undermine any potential competitors. Vice President JD Vance…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (287+ words) The Trump administration is preparing to roll out a $12 billion initiative to bolster domestic stockpiles of strategic critical minerals as the United States looks to reduce its reliance on China for key components of technology that powers cars, computers and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (470+ words) GOMA, Congo'A landslide this week collapsed several mines at a major coltan mining site in eastern Congo, leaving at least 200 people dead, rebel authorities said Saturday. "For now, there are more than 200 dead, some of whom are still in the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (439+ words) The Trump administration announced on Monday that it had agreed to extend up to $277 million in direct funding and up to $1.3 billion in loans to USA Rare Earth Inc., a mining and manufacturing group, to help develop its supply chain…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1085+ words) Greenland has no shortage of valuable minerals. What it lacks is almost everything else needed to extract them. Greenland is one of the most logistically hostile environments on the planet " a place with no roads between towns, limited labor, and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (153+ words) MOSCOW " Botswana plans to open an embassy in Moscow soon and has invited Russian investors to cooperate on rare earths and diamonds, Russia's TASS state news agency quoted Botswana's foreign minister as saying on Sunday. Russia is seeking to strengthen…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1762+ words) The origin of China's dominance of rare earths can be traced to an iron ore mine near Baotou in the country's north, 50 miles from the Mongolian border. It was April 1964 and Chinese geologists had discovered that the mine also held…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (411+ words) Early on Monday, the supply of new cryptocurrency tied to Bittensor'a decentralized network of AI projects'dropped by half. The halving was the first the currency has experienced and came about by design, reflecting how Bittensor shares the same anti-inflationary architecture…...