Startup Rock Zero is commercializing the research, which could cut costs and carbon emissions from lithium production.

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

While we make batteries based on many different chemistries, nothing has approached the massive scale at which we can produce ...

The U.S. may not have enough water to support its lithium ambitions, a new Northwestern University study has found. An ...

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 ...