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A rush for critical minerals echoes oil extraction injustice as harms fall on world's most vulnerable, scientists warn
- April 29, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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Mining critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt fuels the "green" energy and digital transitions essential to meeting climate goals. But building the technologies that enable a sustainable future is generating severe, hidden environmental and health crises that the world is failing to track or address, warns a new report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), known as the UN's Think Tank on Water.
Originally published at Phys.org