The total of Bolivia’s confirmed lithium resources has increased 2 million tons to 23 million tons, the Andean country’s president said Thursday. The new estimate further cements Bolivia’s position as the country with the world’s biggest known deposits of lithium, which is
Retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal of Venezuela, a close confidant of the country’s late socialist president, Hugo Chávez, pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday. Carvajal, 63, is accused of having smuggled 12,300 pounds (6.15 tons) of
Investigations triggered by the cracking of encrypted phones three years ago have so far led to more than 6,500 arrests worldwide and the seizure of hundreds of tons of drugs, French, Dutch and European Union prosecutors said Tuesday. The announcement underscored the
With the help of a high-leaping dog with a fine nose for cocaine, Italian police seized more than about 3 tons of the drug hidden in 70 tons of boxed bananas shipped from Ecuador, authorities said Tuesday. Police estimated that the cocaine,
European authorities have arrested 27 suspects in an alleged illegal eel operation following a two-year investigation that prompted searches in France, Spain, Belgium and Poland, Spain’s Civil Guard said this week. The Civil Guard, in a joint operation with the French National
More than 5,000 tons of toxic chemicals are released from consumer products every year inside homes and workplaces in California, new research has found. The study, which is the first of its kind, shows people are exposed to multiple chemicals in everyday
Comment on this story Comment Liz Pinfield-Wells was about to feed her infant son, Albert, when she looked down at the plastic pouch of baby food in her hand. “Wow, that seems like a lot of packaging,” Pinfield-Wells recalled thinking to herself
The 2.5 tons of uranium that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declared missing in Libya on Wednesday has been recovered, the Libyan National Army (LNA) claims. Libyan forces announced the recovery of the natural uranium on Thursday, saying they found the
Some 2.5 tons of natural uranium stored in a site in war-torn Libya have gone missing, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Thursday, raising safety and proliferation concerns. Natural uranium can’t immediately be used for energy production or bomb fuel, as the
Some 2.5 tons of natural uranium have gone missing from a non-governmental site in Libya, according to a confidential statement from the United Nation’s International Atomic Agency. U.N. nuclear watchdog inspectors made the discovery while carrying out an inspection that was postponed