Technological breakthroughs are producing sweeping changes throughout the economy, from manufacturing to your check-out lane at Wal-Mart, and from legal research to laser surgery.
The notion that the coal industry should be propped up as part of an "America First" agenda is being challenged by the very people it would aim to protect - the coal companies themselves.
Metals and mining companies are starting to seize the opportunities offered by digital technologies.
Stephen Yeboah explores the relationship between farming and mining, and argues more work is needed to ensure the two can co-exist.
There is a reason we talk about the Bronze Age and the Iron Age: because materials can change the world. These new ones will do just that.
Mining in Peru has led to an economic boom, but local communities may not be feeling the benefits.
When multinationals and wealthy individuals don't pay their fair share of taxes in Africa, it robs the continent of resources that could transform the lives of millions.
Prices of the precious metal are trading at their highest levels in a year, lifting gold out of a three-year downturn. Why is gold bucking the trend?
Why is everyone getting so excited about asteroid mining?
This article is published in collaboration with The Conversation. Anglo American, one of the largest mining companies in the world, has announced a restructure that will cut 85,000 jobs w...
Commodities have already had a tough 2015 – but earlier this week, prices for everything, from crude oil to industrial metals such as iron ore and copper, plummeted even further. The sect...
This article is published in collaboration with The Conversation. Publication does not imply endorsement of views by the World Economic Forum. More than a billion tonnes of potentially to...
Gusts of wind blow the dust coming from thousands of animals as they make their way to Urura borehole in Kenya’s arid northern Merti ward. The well is set in a grazing area reserved for u...
Christoph Heinrich, a professor at ETH’s Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, is keen to emphasise one thing right from the start: “It’s simply wrong to talk about final limits to res...
This month, the heads of 193 UN member states will sign on to a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will be the shared global development framework for the coming genera...
