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Uusi raportti: Ilmastotavoitteiden saavuttaminen on mahdollista ilman kriittisten mineraalien holtitonta käyttöä https://www.greenpeace.org/finland/tiedotteet/ilmastonmuuto…

Uusi raportti: Ilmastotavoitteiden saavuttaminen on mahdollista ilman kriittisten mineraalien holtitonta käyttöä - Greenpeace Suomi
Raportti osoittaa, kuinka maapallon mineraalivaroja voidaan hallinnoida uusiutuvan energian murroksessa siten, että välttämättömiä, maapallon elämää ylläpitäviä järjestelmiä suojellaan niin kutsuttujen kriittisten mineraalien maanpäälliseltä ja syvänmeren louhinnalta.

Trump and Rubio blackmailing the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/health/zambia-hiv-aid-minerals-trump.html

No H.I.V. Aid Without More Access to Minerals: U.S. Ponders ‘Sticks’ Against Zambia
A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support “on a massive scale.”

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The closure of the strait of Hormuz
is causing a “paralyzing, real-time problem”
for any prospective manufacturing surge in the US defense industrial base,
and even for the repair of defense equipment damaged by Iranian attacks,
according to analysis published by West Point’s Modern War Institute.
In particular sulphur, a vital upstream input in the extraction of critical minerals including copper and cobalt,
has seen a “near total” disruption of seaborne …

UCLA cancels Bari Weiss' Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on "the future of journalism", following student protests; a source says it will be rescheduled (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/bari-weiss-ucla-lecture-canc…

Bari Weiss' UCLA Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Has Been Rescheduled
The CBS News editor-in-chief was set to appear at the university for a discussion centered on the "future of journalism."

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Memorial along the canal bank.
Beeston Canal, Nottingham, January 2026
#photography #documentingplace #documentingspace

Tonight (Wed, March 18) at 6:30 pm (EDT) a public event on "Time's Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature" by Bob Hazen and Mike Wong. ⚒️🧪 #mineralogy
Virtual registration at https://carnegiescie…

Time's Second Arrow
Join Carnegie Science researchers Robert M. Hazen and Michael L. Wong for a lively discussion about their proposed "second arrow of time"—a heretofore missing law of nature that explains how the marvelously complex constituents of our universe came to be.

The State Department is considering 🔥withholding lifesaving assistance to people with H.I.V. in Zambia as a negotiating tactic ⚠️ to force the government of the southern African country to sign a deal giving the United States more access to the country’s critical minerals.
“We will only secure our priorities by demonstrating willingness to publicly take support away from Zambia on a massive scale,”
a draft of a memo prepared for Secretary of State Marco Rubio by the department’s …

No H.I.V. Aid Without More Access to Minerals: U.S. Ponders ‘Sticks’ Against Zambia
A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support “on a massive scale.”

The Trump administration purged the State Department of its oil and gas experts last year,
-- prior to launching its war on Iran,
--including people who would be responsible for examining scenarios related to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
By the time the layoffs were over,
the only people left in the energy bureau were people specializing in critical minerals and clean energy,
the administration said in a notification to Congress at the time.
The pe…

Oil and Gas Experts in State Department Fired in DOGE Efforts Prior to Iran War
The administration laid off people responsible for modeling scenarios like the Strait of Hormuz closure, reporting says.