During one of his many visits to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Siddharth Kara, an author and Harvard academic who has spent 20 years researching modern slavery, met a young woman sifting dirt ...

Electric vehicles are marvelous in many ways but if you think they’re “green and clean,” you haven’t done your homework. Not to worry: Siddharth Kara has done it for you. The author of three previous ...

So-called artisanal miners sort minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo, feeding a world ravenous for rechargeable batteries at the cost of human lives. (Samir Tounsi / AFP/Getty Images) You, the ...

If you want to know what’s being unleashed by the rush to mandate electric cars for a so-called clean-energy transition, read “Cobalt Red.” It will leave you almost as shaken as its author, Siddharth ...

Siddharth Kara is a researcher and activist on modern slavery. He is a British Academy Global Professor and an Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University and ...

A Harvard visiting professor and modern slavery activist exposed the "appalling" cobalt mining industry in the Congo on a recent episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" that went viral. The video has ...

A Harvard visiting professor and modern slavery activist exposed the “appalling” cobalt mining industry in the Congo on a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” that went viral. The video has ...