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Plus, the voluntary carbon market is growing like gangbusters.
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The underside of beauty isn't always pretty. Here how one company is trying to fix that.
by Joel Makower
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In areas of the ocean beyond national jurisdiction, countries cooperate through the Law of the Sea Convention, ratified by 167 countries and the European Union. The U.S. should join them and help to lead on this issue.
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The company already uses 71 percent recycled silver and gold, but it wants to stop using these metals from mined sources by 2025.
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Form California to Peru, the history of toxic pollution from mining repeats itself.
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Although the economics have yet to pencil out, scientists are exploring the use of phytomining to help meet the world’s increased demand for lithium, a key component of batteries that run EVs and other modern electronics.
by Doug Johnson
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Which is better: reusable, unrecyclable plastic or single-use, recyclable aluminum?
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The environmental damage and human health hazards that these activities create may be both severe and irreversible.
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Carmakers are coming under increasing pressure to ensure the materials used for electric vehicle production are responsibly sourced.
by Toby Hill
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The mining industry has work to do to ensure that communities and workers are safe from pollution and injury.
by Matthew Ross
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Increasing scrutiny has delivered major improvements in the mining industry’s approach to environmental and social governance.
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Production might be out of sight, out of mind, but CO2 is embedded in products through minerals and materials. How do we measure it?
by Paolo Natali
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The transport and construction companies have been testing a range of prototype equipment, in a bid to create the first emissions-free quarry in Sweden.
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As an emissions-free fuel, it's already been used in new mining processing, fuel cell vehicles and electricity generation.
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Energy usage in extractions is notoriously unsustainable, which presents a new opportunity for local communities.
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Richer nations may import the products, but they're not held accountable for the emissions.
by Kai Whiting
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But there's still a ways to go to producing tech devices and content with less environmental impact.
by Steven Cohen
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Canadian company EnviroLeach wants to make the process of 'urban mining' less hazardous for humans and the environment.
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In our 100th episode: Why investors are bullish on sustainable infrastructure, what to expect from COP23, and how a diamond company helped build a nation.
by Joel Makower
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From employees and business partners to small-scale miners, engaging with these groups means the difference between a successful project and failure.
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The recently launched Global Battery Alliance is scaling up public-private collaboration to eradicate child labor from the tech supply chain.
by Mark Viso
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In the 1980s, a mining company tried to divide a Wisconsin community. Instead, it created 'one of the country’s fiercest grass-roots environmental face-offs.”
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With the potential to cut a gigaton of carbon, it’s time to take a hard look at sustainable mining.
by Paolo Natali
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In this week's episode, why mayors are appointing chief resilience officers, cap-and-trade makes a comeback and biomimicry turns 20.
by Joel Makower