Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2013

Global land-use changes caused by a major ramp-up in biofuel crops—enough to meet about 10% of the world’s energy needs—could make some regions warmer, according to a new integrated modeling study by researchers from MIT and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2021

More than half of the world’s cobalt currently comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has had a dismal record for protecting the environment and the well-being of the people who live and work around its mines. Oceanographers from MIT and elsewhere have been studying the environmental consequences of such operations.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Roughly 60% of mined cobalt is sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. The element is often recovered as a byproduct from mining copper and nickel, meaning that demand and pricing for those other metals affects the availability of cobalt.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Democratic Republic of Congo produces 70 percent of the world's cobalt, and most of the world's nickel sits under Indonesian rainforests. Land-based mining is already fraught with environmental destruction, emissions, human rights abuses , and mountains of waste, as well as precarious global supply chains.

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