Western governments are offering incentives to Brazil to develop a rare earths supply chain. It has large reserves and its first rare earths mine started commercial production this year

The US Treasury said on Wednesday that VPower Finance Security and other firms in Hong Kong and the UAE were punished for transporting gold produced by Russia's biggest gold miner Polyus

China's exports saw yearly growth in May, with a better yuan exchange rate and firms shipping early ahead of tariff increases in foreign markets

Chinese investment in Africa increased 114% last year, with a heavy focus on minerals essential to the global energy transition

German firm Thyssenkrupp Decarbon Technologies has come up with a new process that captures 100% of carbon dioxide emissions

Multi-year satellite study finds 45% of big Chinese cities are subsiding over 3mm a year, with 16% sinking more than 10mm a year, affecting millions of residents

China is well behind its goal to slash energy and carbon intensity, leading analysts say, with weak targets set for 2024 and no move to curb coal use

US officials have charged a Japanese man with conspiring to sell nuclear materials from Myanmar that could be used to make a bomb; he faces a court hearing in New York

Google is partnering with the Environmental Defense Fund, a non-profit, with a plan to launch a satellite next month that uses Google's AI system to measure methane leaks

China and Indonesia account for 70% of global supplies of nickel, but producers in the countries have become unprofitable after the battery metal shed more than 80% of its price since last year

China has invited top car and battery makers to a new research body to try to develop a world-class battery, that bolsters its transition to electric and new energy vehicles

Industry sources said a merger or partnership deal would have been tricky, partly because rare earths prices have dropped sharply due to a slowdown in China's economy