To all of the fossil fuel defenders who are now suddenly worried about the environmental impact of lithium mining, I have a question: What changed? Where was your faux outrage over the mining of ...

Demand for lithium is skyrocketing as factories across the world churn out electric vehicles and the massive batteries that ...

Mississippi sits on the Smackover Formation, which contains one of the nation’s highest-grade lithium brines. The element is ...

EL CENTRO, Calif. (CN) — Imperial County’s plans to allow companies to mine lithium from the drying Salton Sea do not violate California’s environmental quality rules despite the concerns of local ...

Lithium is essential for the clean energy transition, but its extraction often involves severe environmental and health consequences. AlkaLi, a startup company, aims to revolutionize lithium ...

Researchers explored the environmental impacts of fluid abstraction in closed-basin lithium brine systems, emphasizing that the extraction of fresh groundwater poses a greater threat to ...

The transition to a lower carbon future depends on electric vehicles, and the batteries in those vehicles depend on lithium. That's a mineral in short supply and in big demand. But mining lithium can ...

The authors of a study about the environmental effects of exploratory drilling for a proposed lithium mine in Serbia say their analysis was retracted at the behest of employees working for the mining ...

Off-road vehicles are driven on the property owned by Controlled Thermal Resources, which will be mined for lithium along the Salton Sea, in Niland, Calif., Thursday, July 15, 2021. Welcome to ...

Here’s a thoroughly modern riddle: what links the battery in your smartphone with a dead yak floating down a Tibetan river? The answer is lithium – the reactive alkali metal that powers our phones, ...