The sustainability of lithium batteries is questioned due to extraction impacts and recycling challenges, necessitating systemic changes for a greener future.

A 2024 astronaut photo shows a striking pink, heart-shaped salt lake in the middle of the Argentine lowlands. The endearing ...

Codelco and Quiborax announced the creation of the company Minera Ascotán SpA to advance in obtaining the Special Lithium ...

CAÑON CITY • It’s around here somewhere. Tiffany Brewer is sure of it. She’s sure, because she’s been here several times before ー this place where one walks atop red rock ridges that rise with the ...

As demand — and competition — for critical minerals used in clean technologies heats up around the world, mining startups are ...

At Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni salt flat, brine pumping for battery supply concentrates arsenic; researchers warn effects ripple far beyond the mine.

CLEVELAND — During this stretch of extreme cold, city after city has said it’s dealing with a salt shortage. Cargill tells News 5 it does not have a shortage of salt supplies but says early winter ...

Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) said late Tuesday its merger with the lithium unit of Chile's state-owned Codelco is fully complete after the country's Supreme Court rejected an appeal that had been ...

Deserts cover roughly a third of Earth’s land surface, and they’re far more varied and extreme than most people realise. […] ...

Private snow contractors say salt supplies are running low and prices have more than doubled. Contractors say early snowfall and repeated storms quickly depleted available salt. Some companies are ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...