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Indigenous rights, the environment, and international law: What's at stake at this week's seabed mining talks
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The hidden potential of Trump’s critical minerals stockpile
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (285+ words) Currently, [critical mineral policy is] being deployed to advance a bellicose nationalism," said Lorah Steichen, the research manager at the Transition Security Project, a nonprofit that investigates the US and UK military industrial complexes as climate and economic threats. Which…...
Japan's unprecedented project could test the limits of deep-sea mining
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (658+ words) We hand-package the week's best Grist stories. Delivered free every Saturday morning. The year 2010 was a reckoning for Japan's economic security." On September 7, the Chinese fishing trawler Minjinyu 5179 refused an order by Japan's coast guard to leave disputed waters near…...
These Finnish homes are being heated by a surprising source: Bitcoin
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (680+ words) We hand-package the week's best Grist stories. Delivered free every Saturday morning. Can the reuse of crypto mining's waste heat redeem its carbon footprint? For someone who cares about climate change, Matt Carlsson had what seemed like a dream job:…...
The Pentagon is hoarding critical minerals that could power the clean energy transition
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (485+ words) We hand-package the week's best Grist stories. Delivered free every Saturday morning. Pete Hegseth, who has taken to calling himself the Secretary of War, says the Defense Department "does not do climate change crap." Just last week, he asserted that…...
What changed for deep-sea mining in 2025? Everything.
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (741+ words) For more than a decade, The Metals Company has poured millions of dollars into researching and developing technology for mining seafloors at extreme depths, funding scientific studies to evaluate the environmental impact, and persuading investors and political leaders to support…...
The country's biggest magnesium producer went bankrupt. Who's going to clean up the $100M mess?
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1756+ words) Bill Johnson has witnessed the extent of US Magnesium's pollution up close. He's seen the wastewater pond that was so acidic it bubbled like a cauldron. He noted where the corrosive liquid had eaten through the soil beneath, and where…...
A huge cache of critical minerals found in Utah may be the largest in the US
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (952+ words) Note: We ask republishing partners to include a pixel to help us measure story reach. The only information this tracker gathers is the publication domain and date, and view counts. For questions, email'[email protected] A Utah company says it…...
Trump sets sights on Pacific seafloor near the Marianas Trench
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (216+ words) Anita Hofschneider is a senior staff writer at Grist based in Honolulu. She is Chamorro from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and spent a decade reporting on local news in Hawai'i before joining Grist's Indigenous affairs desk. Her…...
How a profit-sharing agreement could be a new model for mining on Indigenous land
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (458+ words) There are a lot of things that were different as we started to work with Integra," Mason said. Early efforts included invitations to tribal members to the mine while impact studies were conducted as well as initial site surveys. Historically,…...