China’s export curbs have forced the U.S. to find critical minerals elsewhere. Can Latin America keep up the supply?

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Four of the world’s 10 busiest spaceports are in the U.S. Russia and China each operate two. There are no commercial ...

With plummeting prices and slowing demand for EVs, the once-thriving mining towns of Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia are now ...

After years of investing in Europe, Chinese EV and battery firms are turning to Asia, Africa, and Latin America ...

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“China’s complaint has legal merit. India’s EV incentives clearly favor domestic content, which runs counter to WTO rules ...

Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in ...

Hazel Gandhi is an intern at Rest of World. She has a master's degree in data journalism from Columbia University. She was ...

In Malawi, small-scale farmers are turning to an AI chatbot called Ulangizi for instant farming advice in their own language. The tool uses ChatGPT, and is trained on government data and traditional ...

Every few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks on a two-day journey to see her doctor. She fills her backpack with a change of ...

Electric vehicle sales in Colombia grew by 150% between 2023 and 2024. The boom in EV battery recycling companies is hampered by low recovery rates. Light-EV owners are often unable to get their ...