We’ve entered a period where control of a few key resources and trade routes gives countries enormous leverage.
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It’s one thing to abandon the dogmas of neoliberalism. It’s quite another to develop a coherent alternative.
The competition for Africa’s critical minerals between China and the West presents an opportunity.
In advance of the release of the 2025 UK critical minerals strategy, the excitement for onshoring mining cannot ignore local experiences.
The global shift toward renewable energy is challenging old geopolitical power structures. So where does Australia stand?
Canadian officials have pledged more than $43 billion in subsidies to create new low-carbon supply chains. A new study identifies some problems.
African countries must work collectively to seize opportunities in new digital and green economies where the continent’s critical minerals are so important.
Is the U.S.-brokered peace agreement between Rwanda and the DRC a genuine path to sustainable peace, or a continuation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s coercive diplomacy?
Commercial mining of the deep sea could begin soon. But these metals and minerals are not scarce. Mining will be harmful and the economic benefits are overstated.
The EU is vulnerable to shortages of materials that are required for clean technologies.
Inside every smartphone and laptop are tiny specks of valuable materials, many of which are still lost even when you take your old electronics to a recycling center.
Rare earth elements are tiny yet essential parts of many of the technologies you use every day. New techniques are making their recovery from US sources increasingly viable.
Not only are experts sceptical of the value of Ukraine’s reserves, profits could be decades off. Trump, however, may have other motivations for making the deal.
Australia’s plan to build strategic reserves of critical minerals makes sense as the US and China vie for control of the minerals which will shape the future.
Old EV batteries have huge potential. But it’s not going to be easy to realise this.
A re-elected Albanese government will take the unprecedented step of buying or obtaining options over key critical minerals to protect Australia’s national interest.
With the United States and China fighting over access to critical minerals used in tech and defence, Australia finds itself in a unique strategic position.
Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes in the water column where many creatures live.
Critical minerals are in demand around the world for military, technology and other uses. A geoscientist shares what’s known about Ukraine’s reserves, which could help the country recover from war.
Ukraine’s mineral riches have always had strategic importance in the Russia-Ukraine war — first, to Russia, and now to the United States under President Donald Trump.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Technology and Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Sustainability and Fellow of Indo Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch University
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Professor, Co-Founder, Critical Minerals Consortium, and Australia-India Critical Minerals Research Hub, Monash University
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Assistant Clinical Professor of Critical Resources & Sustainability Analytics, University of Maryland
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Lecturer in Human Geography, Liverpool John Moores University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Università di Torino
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Professor of Geography, School of People, Environment and Planning, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of Global Governance, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Engineer in Electric Vehicle Batteries and Battery Storage, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Applied Geology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Natural Resource Economics, West Virginia University
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Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary
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Lecturer (Political Economy), University of Cape Town
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Research Fellow (Geoenvironmental Engineering) | Adjunct Lecturer (Civil Engineering), The University of Queensland