As Jammu and Kashmir authorities prepare to mine lithium in Reasi, locals fear negative environmental and social impacts, given the history of large...

How can the risks associated with increased critical mineral production be addressed in Latin America? As outlined in a recent report published by the OECD and...

This year, Bihar extended a seasonal ban on mining sand from its rivers. But illegal sand mining continues every day across the eastern Indian state.

On 12 July 2022, students and young professionals from various academic disciplines and sectors  took part in a training on Climate Change and Security in...

Ahead of the next edition of the Climate Sensitive Programming for Sustaining Peace course, UNSSC authors offer insights on lessons learned.

The EU wants electric cars to drive it to net zero, powered by batteries produced in the bloc, but at what cost to people living near new lithium mines?

The Kingdom of the Netherlands has contributed $28 million to back FAO's work to boost the resilience of food systems in Somalia, Sudan, and South Sudan - part...

A new form of organized crime has recently been emerging in the Amazon: illegal mining. Miners fell trees, use high-grade explosives for blasting soils and...

No country is immune to natural hazards, but for fragile states, the effects are even more severe. Mostly, conflict prevention and humanitarian aid are seen as...

Resource consumption has grown exponentially over the past: between 1970 and 2010, the quantity of extracted materials has tripled. Not only the overall amount...

Finding domestic alternatives for rare earths has become a matter of national security, according to a recently released Pentagon report. The United States’...