No country can successfully manage 21st-century challenges alone. What is missing is a coherent and effective multilateral ...

The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

Decades of process innovation and industrial policy helped China corner the rare earths market while the US fell behind.

Ramaco, a mining company, is developing a small coal mine in Wyoming that will extract rare earth elements from the coal it ...

Trump, who sued the WSJ and its owners including Rupert Murdoch for at least $10 billion on Friday over the newspaper's ...

While rich mineral deposits promise centuries of supply, critics argue Japan’s deep-ocean venture risks an irreversible ‘race to the bottom’.

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

The United States and other countries will have to replicate China’s processing capabilities to dismantle one of Beijing’s ...

Beijing uses its near-monopoly on critical minerals to win trade concessions. Can the U.S. find alternate supplies?

China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such a stranglehold on an industry the U.S. once controlled?

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1 900 km southeast of Tokyo, in January next year, the head of the government-backed project ...