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Lithium mine in Zimbabwe. Photo: courtesy Reinhard Jahn / via The Conversation Zimbabwe has the largest lithium reserves on the African continent. Lithium has been mined since the colonial period in the 1950s. It’s a critical part

To the discerning eye, other mountains are visible – giants between 23,000 and 26,000 feet high. Not one of their slenderer heads even reaches their chief’s shoulder. Beside Everest they escape notice, such is the pre-eminence of

Through its unrelenting war on Gaza, Israel has killed over 59,000 Palestinians, injured 143,000 others, and pushed hundreds of thousands into forced starvation caused by its blockade on the enclave and its militarised distribution system. More than

Two Palestinian teenage boys have been killed by Israeli forces in the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency, in the latest deadly violence in the territory

At least 10 more Palestinians have starved to death in the besieged Gaza Strip, health officials say, as a wave of hunger crashes over the enclave. The latest starvation deaths bring the death toll from malnutrition since

Handcuffed, heads shaved, and chained at the waist, Ángel Blanco and Joen Suárez were thrown into one of Latin America’s most feared prisons. Four months later, they’re free—and rapping their way out of the silence. From a

For two decades, Buenaventura’s San Antonio estuary has whispered rumors of hundreds of bodies being dumped into its murky waters. Now, a rare alliance of divers, priests, and shellfish gatherers is trying to find the bodies and

In Chile’s Atacama Desert, lithium powers the planet’s green transition, but at a growing cost. As ponds expand and springs collapse, herders, biologists, and Indigenous leaders fear the land they love is being traded away—drop by drop—for

In Colombia’s Tatacoa Desert, a dusty bone with two puncture marks has revealed a prehistoric ambush: a massive caiman taking down a terror bird. The discovery is reshaping scientific views of South America’s ancient food chain—and who

By  Louis Jacobson | Politifact One of the Trump administration’s biggest tariff boosters, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, recently said tariffs will not only energise the industrial sector in the United States but also help the government’s finances.