Map highlights environmental and social costs of rare earths extraction
A recently released map by the Debt Observatory in Globalization, in collaboration with the EJAtlas of Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), the Institute for Policy Studies, and CRAAD-OI Madagascar, has shed light on a less-discussed aspect of the global supply chains for rare earth elements (REEs). The "Rare Earths Impacts and Co