DRC: A Power Struggle over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution

Nov 20, 2021 | Dionne Searcey, Michael Forsythe, and Eric Lipton, New York Times
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Just up a red dirt road, across an expanse of tall, dew-soaked weeds, bulldozers are hollowing out a yawning new canyon that is central to the world’s urgent race against global warming. For more than a decade, the vast expanse of untouched land was controlled by an American company. Now a Chinese mining conglomerate has bought it, and is racing to retrieve its buried treasure: millions of tons of cobalt.