BLM approves expanded drilling and development on public land by minerals company 3 Proton Lithium in Nye County’s Railroad ...

The critical challenge—and opportunity—of battery end-of-life in a clean energy future. By Morgan McCarthy, JD Electric ...

Lithium and other critical minerals are in often-overlooked water sources like geothermal brines and oilfield produced water.

A nickel stockpile towers over farmer Moharen Tambiling's rice paddy in the Philippines' Palawan, evidence of a mining boom ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to abandon landmark regulations limiting airborne mercury and greenhouse ...

In southeastern Brazil’s Jequitinhonha Valley, a region that is home to up to 85% of the country’s known lithium deposits, residents say the arrival of the mining company Sigma Lithium brought ...

The Trump Administration’s loosened mining regulations can limit access to life-sustaining drinking water, Wyatt Myskow said at the 2025 Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Tempe ...

Lithium, says David Boutt, professor of geosciences at UMass Amherst, the paper's senior author, is a strange element. It's the lightest of the metals, but it doesn't like to be in a solid form.

Reporting in Environmental Science & Technology Letters in January, the duo conducted the first thorough chemical analysis of wastewater associated with mining the lithium brine at the Salar de Uyuni.

Life cycle comparison of industrial-scale lithium-ion battery recycling and mining supply chains. Nature Communications, 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56063-x ...