Lithium is emerging as a strategic resource, pushing Europe to develop domestic mining and reduce dependence on Chinese-controlled critical mineral supply chains. In recent years, the European Union ...

There’s a growing push to build an EV-battery industry in Europe and North America by recycling lithium-ion batteries.

The only lithium mine operating in the United States is in Nevada. But there are plans to open more to meet the demand for ...

An estimated 40,000 children work in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the source of over half of the world’s supply. In Madagascar, an estimated 10,000 children mine for mica.

The writer is associate professor of political science at Providence College and author of ‘Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism’ The so-called lithium triangle — the Andean desert plateau ...

The United States is sitting on a volcanic relic that could reshape the global race for electric vehicle batteries and renewable energy storage. Beneath a vast ancient crater in the West, geologists ...

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...

Lithium could be selectively extracted from "low quality" brines using a surprising mechanism discovered at the University of Michigan. The technology could help make brine lakes rich in magnesium a ...

South Dakota has reserves of 15 of the 50 minerals the U.S. government has labeled as critical. Rising global demand for minerals used in technology, like lithium and graphite, is driving new mining ...