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Activists hold up torches during a rally as they commemorate slain indigenous peoples and environmental defenders on November 10, 2022 in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines. (Getty Images / Ezra Acayan / Stringer)

Indigenous defenders face rising threats

Miacel Spotted Elk - Grist
Deep-sea octopus Moosoctopus profundorum in his own garden with stalk lilies Ptilocrinus pinnatus (Russia, Bering Sea, Piip volcano, depth 2700 meters) (Getty Images / undefined undefined)

Deep sea mining threatens the unknown

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Sand slipping through fingers (Getty Images/PeopleImages)

The conflict generated by sand

Matthew Rozsa
Pinyon Plain uranium mine, which is located near the Grand Canyon. (Photo courtesy of Taylor McKinnon/Center for Biological Diversity)

Advocates demand halt to uranium mine

Matthew Rozsa
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The aerial view of Salton sea in California, USA (Getty Images/Yunpeng Li)

Salton Sea eyed for lithium extraction

June Kim - Undark
US President Joe Biden (C) gestures after signing a proclamation to designate Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, at Red Butte Airfield, 25 miles (40kms) south of Tusayan, Arizona, on August 8, 2023. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden protects Grand Canyon from mining

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Oak Flats in Superior, Arizona. (Andrew Lichtenstein/ Corbis via Getty Images)

Biden saves Oak Flat Apache site for now

Lyric Aquino - Grist
The Llipi pilot plant in Uyuni, south from La Paz, on August 17, 2015 (Getty/Aizar Raldes)

The social cost of lithium in Chile

Tushar Khurana - Grist
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Oak Flats in Superior, Arizona. (Andrew Lichtenstein/ Corbis via Getty Images)

Indigenous place of worship threatened

Lyric Aquino - Grist
Using a hydraulic hammer, miners mine roof slate in an underground pit (Thomas Frey/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Gov push to find green energy minerals

Maddie Stone - Grist
Thacker Pass (U.S. Bureau of Land Management)

Lithium mine controversy in Nevada

Gabriela Aoun Angueira - Grist
(Getty/agnormark)

Can Congress fix an 1872 mining law?

Blanca Begert - Grist
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Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters Building in Washington DC (Getty Images)

In rare veto, EPA halts Alaska mine

Jessie Blaeser - Grist
Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

EV boom could bring lithium mines to NC

Blanca Begert - Grist
Colorful sunset overlooking the Colorado River deep in the Grand Canyon (Dean Fikar/Getty Images)

Joseph Lee
Asteroid (Getty Images)

Wealthy nations carving up space riches

Theodora Ogden - The Conversation
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Electronic components including circuit boards sit in a pile ahead of recycling at Aurubis AG on February 7, 2014 in Luenen, Germany. (Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)

Chemists want to mine e-waste for metals

Eric Schank
Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Europe has a Russian nickel problem

Maddie Stone - Grist
1993 California Gold Rush. Ralph Shock holds a nine ounce nugget found in the North fork of Tuolumne River outside Jamestown in mid May. Ralph says the nugget is worth between US $5,800 and $8,500. Nuggets that can be used for jewelry are prized and valued beyond their weight. (Steve Starr/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The Gold Rush returns to California

Becki Robins - Undark
The body of a VW ID.3 hangs on a production line during a press tour of Volkswagen's Transparent Factory. At the site in Dresden, 35 fully electric vehicles are produced every day. (Effect due to long exposure) (Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

US wants to change EV batteries

Maddie Stone - Grist
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Thacker Pass (U.S. Bureau of Land Management)

The battle of Thacker Pass

Maddie Stone - Grist
U.S. President Donald Trump (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump transfers sacred land to miners

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Using a hydraulic hammer, miners mine roof slate in an underground pit (Thomas Frey/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COVID disrupting global mining industry

John Steen - The Conversation
A defunct coal-fired power station near Johnson City, New York. (Duncan Rawlinson/Flickr)

Chubb will no longer invest in coal

Elana Sulakshana - Truthout
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