January 16, 2026

XRP is holding near $2.10 while its new spot exchange-traded funds quietly pass the $1.37Bn mark. The token sat at around $2.13 on Friday after a small -3.2% dip over the past day. It stayed above the $2 support level but well under this…

The crypto market cap sits at 3.32 trillion dollars, and for us watching screens a little too long, it is somehow bullish. Bitcoin price keeps pulling focus, driving the direction of the crypto market as a whole. Crypto market cap holds…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Eavor is a next-generation geothermal energy company that set out to solve one of the long-standing limits of geothermal power. Conventional geothermal…

Two solo Bitcoin miners pulled off something rare this week, each mining a full block and earning about $300,000 worth of Bitcoin. BTC was trading close to $96,000 at the time, which pushed the dollar value of those rewards even higher.…

Silver prices pulled back sharply from all-time highs on Thursday, retreating as much as 7 % after the United States administration announced it would hold off on imposing new import tariffs on critical minerals, alleviating some of the…

Coal India Ltd is exploring partnership opportunities in rare earth mining across Australia, Russia, Argentina, Chile and several African nations, a senior executive of its coking coal–focused unit said, as India seeks to reduce dependency…

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has unveiled legislation that would establish a $2.5 billion Strategic Resilience Reserve to stockpile critical minerals essential for advanced technologies, electric vehicles, renewable energy and…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a landmark two-year agreement with Rio Tinto’s Nuton® Technology venture that will make Amazon the first commercial user of copper produced by the innovative Rio Tinto bioleaching process at the Johnson…

The United States Department of the Interior has formally approved expanded mining plans for Warrior Met Coal’s operations in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, marking a significant regulatory milestone for the company and the domestic coal…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Washington, D.C. — Today, Politico reported that the Trump administration will use funding legally directed by Congress to reduce pollution to instead help…