Cobalt powers our lives. What is it—and why is it so controversial?

How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable ...

Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes ...

The silvery blue metal is used to make lithium-ion batteries that supply energy to everything from cars to e-cigarettes.

Forced evictions at industrial cobalt and copper mines in the DRC

Expansion of mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has led to forced eviction and grievous human rights abuses.

Cobalt Red - Macmillan Publishers

The revelatory Pulitzer Prize finalist for General Nonfiction, New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Bus ...

The Dark Side of Congo's Cobalt Rush | The New Yorker

Cell phones and electric cars rely on the mineral, causing a boom in demand, Nicolas Niarchos writes. Locals are hunting for this buried ...

The Environmental Impacts of Cobalt Mining in Congo | Earth.Org

As demand for cobalt has skyrocketed over the last few decades, it is Congo, home to most of Earth's cobalt reserves.

Cobalt mining for lithium ion batteries has a high human cost

Workers, including children, labor in harsh and dangerous conditions to meet the world's soaring demand for cobalt, a mineral essential to ...

Is your phone tainted by the misery of the 35,000 children in Congo's ...

My field research shows that children as young as six are among those risking their lives amid toxic dust to mine cobalt for the world's big electronics firms.

Understanding cobalt's human cost - Northwestern Now

After studying how cobalt mining affects communities in Democratic Republic of the Congo, researchers call for more data into how emerging ...

Siddarth Kara: How the Blood of the Congo Fuels the Modern World

Siddharth Kara, author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, joins The Realignment to discuss the role cobalt plays in ...

Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt ...

Dell, Microsoft and Tesla also among tech firms named in case brought by families of children killed or injured while mining in DRC.

Congo's Cobalt Controversy - globalEDGE - Michigan State University

Cobalt, a key component in the production of lithium-ion batteries that power phones, computers, and electric vehicles, has soared in both ...

Clean Energy's Dirty Secret—Human Rights Abuses in Cobalt Mining

Electric vehicles (EVs) are a major cornerstone of clean energy. The modern economy is dependent on smartphones. Every smartphone, EV and ...

Quartz, cobalt, and the waste we leave behind

As eons passed, the liquid rock cooled and geological forces carved this rocky fault line into Pico Sacro, a strange conical peak that sits like ...

Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red is a flawed account of Congo's mines

More than 70% of the world's supply originates from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Kara's project, he says, is to expose the trade's ...

Cobalt Mining: The Dark Side of the Renewable Energy Transition

While cobalt is the mineral conundrum at the heart of the renewable energy transition, cobalt mining is associated with environmental and ...

Cobalt Red : How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic ...

Democratic Republic of Congo: "This is what we die for": Human ...

This report documents the hazardous conditions in which artisanal miners, including thousands of children, mine cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

SIDDHARTH KARA is an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery. He is a British Academy Global Professor and an Associate Professor of ...

Cobalt Red : : How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic ...