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 ...

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 ...

Construction started at Thacker Pass in 2023. (Photo: Lithium Americas Presentation, June) Cattle rancher Edward Bartell waited patiently to take pictures of Lithium Nevada pumping water from a well ...

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 ...

GREEN RIVER, Utah—When Kelly Dunham heard that water was gushing out from a test well earlier this month for a proposed lithium mine in the middle of this rural city of 900 residents, she went to see ...

GREEN RIVER, Utah -- A plan to extract lithium -- the lustrous, white metal used in electric-vehicle batteries -- in southeast Utah is adding to an anxiety familiar in the arid American West: how the ...

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 ...

Lithium needed for batteries that power electric vehicles and store electricity from renewable energy projects is likely to deplete—and in some cases, contaminate—local water supplies, according to a ...

Chloride ions diffuse through the membrane, and lithium follows to balance the charge. Magnesium instead binds strongly to ...

A plan to extract lithium — the lustrous, white metal used in electric vehicle batteries — in southeast Utah is adding to an anxiety familiar in the arid American West: how the project could affect ...

Lithium could be selectively extracted from "low quality" brines using a surprising mechanism discovered at the University of ...

Chinese scientists have created a new type of water-based battery that is more efficient at storing energy than standard lithium-ion batteries. The new battery type is also supposedly safer than ...