JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - An irate Chinese boss is screaming at his African workers as they take a lunch break, urging them to work harder or else th
With governments, car manufacturers and tech companies promoting increased electric vehicle production as part of efforts to combat climate change, Computer Weekly looks at the uneven social and environmental costs associated with the extraction of critical minerals needed to make batteries.
A new report detailing two years of research has found that the extraction of cobalt from mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is happening under inhumane conditions.