In Agbogbloshie, Ghana, thousands of young women and men burn electronic waste to extract minerals at a cost to their health.

In the year after the 9/11 attacks on the United States, more Americans enlisted in the military than in any year since. Something similar happened in 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Uncle ...

When Americans no longer want a car, laptop or clothes, where do some of those goods go? Most end up in the Global South, where millions of people depend on repairing, dismantling or selling them for ...

“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch NGO that’s seeking to increase recycling in the electronics industry. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge ...