The Canadian miner’s reinvention as a critical-metals player—via its massive copper mine in Chile’s Andean foothills— could ...

The global race to transition to a low-carbon economy critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and copper climate change ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

A new study from the Institute of Development Studies warns that the scale of global mining conflicts threatens clean energy ...

"I don't know of any other case where plants have been sent back to their country," says Goettsch. "I think it was definitely a success." The cacti are now in an Atacama Desert greenhouse managed ...

The number of conflicts disrupting or halting the mining of critical minerals, like copper and lithium, is putting the energy transition required to combat climate change ...

In the main square of Peine, a village of low houses and dirt streets in Chile’s northern Atacama Desert, there is barely any ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory. In new photos of this planet parade, the wispy glow of ...

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...