Low environmental standards helped China become the world’s low-cost producer of rare earths, but Beijing was also focused on ...

Many modern devices—from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines—rely on strong magnets made from ...

Dust and groundwater contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive chemicals pose a health threat that the authorities have ...

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 ...

China's foreign minister downplayed European worries over rare earth exports restrictions on Thursday, saying it was standard ...

They're in the headlines every week—critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and the rare earth elements ...

China quietly built a near-monopoly in rare earth metals through decades of strategic investment, innovation, and state-led ...

The rate earth metals issues shows that it's time for the United States to treat critical minerals not as commodities, but as ...

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

If the supply of rare earth magnets is not resolved soon, India's auto sector could be looking at production disruptions by ...

A research team led by Dr. Miloslav Polášek at IOCB Prague has developed a new method of separating the rare earth elements, ...