Mining nodules from the deep ocean seabed could provide the metals crucial for today’s EV batteries and renewable energy technology, but little is known about the harm it could cause.

Mining nodules from the deep ocean seabed could provide the metals crucial for today’s EV batteries and renewable energy technology, but little is known about the harm it could cause.

Local people describe a purposeful past in this former mining community – and a bleak future.

Here’s what I’ve learned from researching the history of UK climate policy.

Our prospects of a better, fairer future are inextricably linked with the minerals and metals beneath our feet. Is it time to make peace with the industry that extracts them?

More than 400 proposed fossil fuel extraction projects threaten to blow the world’s 1.5°C target.

Militias mete out violence far from the centres of power – but their dirty work is politically useful.

Solar panels and electric cars come with their own environmental trade-offs like increased mining and extraction.