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Those who dig up the valuable mineral often work in horrific and dangerous conditions, says Siddharth Kara, an international expert on modern-day slavery and author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.

Ideological differences threaten to muddy the definition of death in the United States — with potentially negative consequences for clinicians and people awaiting organ transplants.

Agroecology and biodiversity are the “only viable solutions” to climate change, environmental degradation and attempts to “break away from imperialistic and extractive production systems”.

Italy needs a coalition — not a coalition of anti-fascist forces, but rather a coalition for anti-fascism.

We must build a utopia that can defeat the utopia of the right, which says the state is worth nothing, the state must be weak and private initiative solves everything. We have to make sure that the movement of people is as free as economic movement.

Florida, South Dakota and Arizona are also battlegrounds for whether abortion is restricted or protected as states continue to contend with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last summer.

Clearly, micro- and nanoplastics are getting into us, with at least some escaping through our digestive tracts. We seem to be drinking, eating, and breathing it in.

Calls AI a ‘Criminal Enterprise’: They’ll ‘Scan Extras, Own Their Likeness Forever and Eliminate Them’

A poet sensitive to injustice, W.D. Ehrhart projects a “broken-hearted world without end.”

The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.