Vince Beiser

Vince Beiser is the author of Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future and the Power Metal newsletter. Support for his work was provided by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Recent Articles

The True Cost of Black Friday

The metals contained in that sale-priced gizmo spawn huge environmental damage and fuel abuses.

By Vince Beiser

Feeling the Heat? Blame Concrete

If your city was slammed by record-shattering heat this summer, you can partly blame the stuff the city itself is made of. The scorching temperatures across Europe and the U.S. in July were made worse...

By Vince Beiser
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