Can nanotechnology address the challenges of lithium extraction and mining? As the demand for lithium-ion batteries increases due to smartphones, laptops, and electric vehicles, the environmental ...

Lithium mining is not a green transition-it is a continuation of extractive colonial logic, dressed in sustainable rhetoric.

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 ...

The world's largest known lithium deposit exists within a vast salt pan called the Salar de Uyuni, which stretches for thousands of square miles atop a high, dry Andean plateau in Bolivia. For most of ...

When Aécio Luiz was younger, finding wild beehives was routine in his rural Afro-Brazilian community of Córrego Narciso. A ...

Bolivia holds the world's largest proven lithium reserves but faces challenges in developing them due to low lithium purity, lack of infrastructure, and political instability. The country has signed ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Critics of a proposed lithium mine near the Salton Sea entered round two of their fight to force stricter ...