Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The green revolution promises a future powered by lithium batteries. The demand for this essential battery mineral is expected to ...

Known as ‘white gold’, lithium is among the most important mined elements on the planet – ideal for the rechargeable batteries used in tech products. Can Europe’s largest deposit bring prosperity to ...

Salt flats in the highlands of northern Argentina, home to millions of tonnes of lithium. Credit: Freedom_wanted/Shutterstock. For indigenous communities in the ...

It is not lost on local communities that the global South is being asked to bear the environmental cost of making batteries for electric cars so that wealthy countries can decarbonize.

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South America’s so-called Lithium Triangle is set to draw over $30 billion in about five years as a slew of Chinese, North American and Australian investors looks to seize coveted assets to supply the ...

Duke researchers found no evidence of impacts to domestic well water from legacy, or historic, lithium mining in North Carolina. Used in products like rechargeable batteries, lithium is a silvery ...

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz faces multiple roadblocks as he fights to change the country’s protectionist stance on lithium investment.

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“Corkran’s systematic evaluations revealed two new processes,” says Boutt, professor of Earth, geographic, and climate sciences at UMass Amherst and the paper’s senior author. AMHERST, Mass. — One of ...

Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia's Lithium Triangle could surpass China and Australia as the top lithium producers, drawing over $30 billion in investments within five years. Argentina is set to receive ...