While we make batteries based on many different chemistries, nothing has approached the massive scale at which we can produce lithium batteries. That scale makes the economics of lithium-ion batteries ...

Lithium sits at the center of the battery economy. Yet getting it out of rock still looks surprisingly crude. Spodumene, the ...

Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too great. Patrick Donnelly and Naomi Fraga in a salt flat on the edge of Ash ...

Demand for lithium has surged in recent years as lithium-ion batteries increasingly power more of our world. And yet, even as ...

Startup Rock Zero is commercializing the research, which could cut costs and carbon emissions from lithium production. Researchers say they’ve found a new way to extract lithium, a crucial metal used ...

Lithium is the lightest and smallest alkali metal in the periodic table and possesses a high electrochemical potential. These attributes make it attractive for use in batteries, as it can provide a ...

A new report on the impact of lithium mining in South America’s lithium triangle finds the rush to extract lithium in Chile’s Salar de Atacama has had a severe impact on the area’s water supplies.

A trove of lithium-rich brine exists underground in Bolivia. Researchers conducted the first comprehensive chemical analysis of wastewater associated with mining the resource. The world's largest ...

Emerging DLE technologies offer higher recovery efficiency, faster production times, and a smaller environmental footprint compared with traditional methods like solar evaporation. Current pilot ...

Researchers compared the environmental impacts of lithium-ion battery recycling to mining for new materials and found that recycling significantly outperforms mining in terms of greenhouse gas ...

ACCORDING TO THE USGS, COULD CREATE MILLIONS OF LITHIUM BATTERIES. SO THIS IS WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT. THIS MIGHT JUST LOOK LIKE A REGULAR ROCK, BUT WHAT’S IN IT CAN HELP POWER PHONES, LAPTOPS, AND ...