The rise of personal technology has an ugly side: Its heavy reliance on heavy metals like nickel and cobalt that are mined in developing countries to be used for manufacturing batteries. It’s arduous, ...

In April 2022, Intel announced a new Blockscale series of application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) meant for “energy-efficient blockchain hashing.” In other words, chips designed for mining ...

"It's just really disturbing," says a writer who visited the artificial lake. Rare earth discharge liquid flows from a pipeline into a "rare earth lake" near Xinguang village on Nov. 29, 2010 in ...