It takes lithium and cobalt to build the batteries that power electric vehicles and e-bikes, nickel and rare earth elements ...

The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are ...

Rows of dead batteries stretch across some 30 acres of high desert, organized in piles and boxes that are covered to shield ...

As renewable energy gathers steam around the world, the harms of mining its mineral components continue to grow. On the ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...