A Cornell-led research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse ...

In 2022, humans produced an estimated 62 million tonnes of electronic waste – enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage trucks. This was up 82 per cent from 2010 and is expected to rise to 82 ...

Do you know that your old phones, laptops contain gold? Yes, gold is used in the internal components of a phone, including the CPU, where it's used in bonding wires and plating for contacts. In a ...

Illegal gold extraction detected in Nilambur forest as gold prices cross Rs 1 lakh a sovereign in Kerala, forest officials ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England and former global chief ...