The situation is exacerbated by civil war and a lack of environmental oversight, creating an ecological crisis.

China's export curbs cast a pall of gloom over Indian industries requiring rare earth magnets. Now, the government is set to ...

China has controlled the supply of a group of rare earth minerals that are essential for its factories, which develop ...

Shares of Australian rare earths miners, including Lynas and Iluka Resources , soared on Friday after U.S.-based MP Materials ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

Shares of the little-known mining company soared on Thursday on news that the Pentagon would become the largest shareholder.

The Defense Department on Thursday became the largest shareholder in MP Materials, which owns the only rare earth mine in the ...

The Defense Department is buying $400 million of stock in rare-earth mining company MP Materials as it seeks to boost ...

At more than 470 times the atmospheric concentration of CO₂, a humble soil bacterium does something extraordinary: it turns ...

The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the ...

The Kachin Independence Army since December has been battling the junta over the town of Bhamo, less than 100 km (62 miles) from the Chinese border, as part of the civil war that erupted after the ...

Antarctic research reveals how rare earth elements move underground through freeze-thaw cycles in desert environments.