A breakthrough lithium-extraction method could help solve one of clean energy’s dirtiest problems. Researchers at Columbia ...

The increasing demand for lithium to support electric vehicle production is placing a significant strain on global freshwater resources, especially in already arid regions like the Lithium Triangle. A ...

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

The push towards a green, battery-powered future comes with a major tradeoff. Student reporters from the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University discovered that ...

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

Measuring water availability for lithium extraction can still be unpredictable, especially in the high-altitude Lithium Triangle in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. Current models can overestimate how ...

In the race to meet the growing global demand for lithium -- a critical component in batteries for electric vehicles -- a team of researchers has developed a breakthrough lithium extraction method ...

Over the past few decades, the United States has imported most of its lithium from Chile and Argentina, but there’s one major domestic source of the mineral—Nevada. Clayton Valley, a remote basin in ...

If scaled up, this method could easily address the biggest issues in lithium mining, as well as the looming supply crisis for the valuable element.