2021年5月24日 · Southern Congo sits atop an estimated 3.4 million metric tons of cobalt, almost half the world’s known supply. In recent decades, hundreds of thousands of Congolese have moved to the...

2023年2月1日 · Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show."

2022年2月23日 · Beneath Congo’s rich red earth lies the world’s largest known deposit of cobalt, a key metal in the lithium-ion batteries that power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles.

2024年3月13日 · Most of the world’s cobalt is extracted in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But to get it, hundreds of thousands of Congolese people labor with no other means to survive. On episode three of On Point’s special series -- cobalt and the human cost of mining.

2023年12月21日 · Yet the cobalt that helps power them and other technology comes with serious humanitarian concerns where it’s mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

2023年3月28日 · Cobalt Mining in Congo. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa’s second-largest country, is endowed with an exceptional array of natural resources, from coffee, diamonds, and timber, to its famed biodiversity-rich Congo Basin – the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest.

2023年6月6日 · From the rubber farms of King Leopold’s brutal Congo Free State in the 1890s to the palm oil plantations and uranium mines of the twentieth century, cobalt mining is just the latest chapter in a centuries-long story of exploitation in the DRC.

2024年10月29日 · The DRC, a sub-Saharan country, is the primary source of the world’s cobalt, accounting for over 70% of global production. It is also among the five poorest nations in the world. Approximately 74.6% of Congolese people lived on less than $2.15 daily in 2023.

2024年4月26日 · Hidden inside your smartphone, your laptop, your electric car is the metal cobalt, an ingredient crucial for a rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and other renewable energy sources.

2023年3月30日 · The race for high-tech metals has sparked a cobalt boom in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has come at a steep human cost. In an e360 interview, author Siddharth Kara talks about the horrific conditions in the mines that are …