Nickel is vital to electric car batteries, but extracting it is dirty and destructive. A plant with a turbulent history in New Caledonia is about to become an experiment in sustainable mining.
Chile tiene grandes reservas de litio que son esenciales para la transición del mundo a la energía verde. Pero el descontento por los poderosos intereses mineros, la desigualdad y la crisis del agua han hecho que el país empiece a repensarse.
Chile tiene grandes reservas de litio que son esenciales para la transición del mundo a la energía verde. Pero el descontento por los poderosos intereses mineros, la desigualdad y la crisis del agua han hecho que el país empiece a repensarse.
Chile has lots of lithium, which is essential to the world’s transition to green energy. But anger over powerful mining interests, a water crisis and inequality has driven Chile to rethink how it defines itself.
Chile has lots of lithium, which is essential to the world’s transition to green energy. But anger over powerful mining interests, a water crisis and inequality has driven Chile to rethink how it defines itself.
The Times’s Race to the Future series is focused on the competition for electric-car resources that will shape the 21st century.
Senator Joe Manchin III noted climate policy when he said he would vote against the Build Back Better Act. In his life and career, West Virginia coal has loomed large.
Los gigantes industriales chinos y rusos tratan de aprovechar los depósitos de minerales indispensables para los automóviles eléctricos. Un empresario de EE. UU. tiene su propia estrategia: la paciencia.
Chinese and Russian industrial giants seek to tap mineral deposits vital to electric cars. A Texas entrepreneur has his own strategy: the long game.
Dangerous mining conditions plague Congo, home to the world’s largest supply of cobalt, a key ingredient in electric cars. A leadership battle threatens reforms.
