Every year, millions of lithium-ion batteries reach the end of their useful life and disappear into landfills, scrap chains ...

Critics of a proposed lithium mine near the Salton Sea entered round two of their fight to force stricter environmental review of the project. It’s the latest stage in a legal impasse over the massive ...

The project, launched in June 2023, was set to see lithium mined from granite in china clay pits A project once hailed as part of a new "gold rush" for Cornwall has been put on hold. The project, ...

A new report on the impact of lithium mining in South America’s lithium triangle has found that methods used by companies in the rush to extract the mineral in Chile’s Salar de Atacama has led to an ...

Ghana’s parliament ratified the country’s first lithium mining agreement in March 2026. This came three years after lithium mining was confirmed as commercially viable in September 2023. The Ewoyaa ...

Concrete is the world's most manufactured item, with more than 25 billion tons used in construction each year. It's also responsible for consuming vast quantities of non-renewable resources, and ...

The Silver Peak mine in Nevada is the only operating lithium project in the United States. Expansion of the nation’s only operating lithium mine would likely have only a modest impact on its remote ...

Despite promises of bringing cash and clean energy to a long-struggling region in the California desert, a new lithium mining project is already under scrutiny for allegedly ignoring the severe ...

The authors of a study about the environmental effects of exploratory drilling for a proposed lithium mine in Serbia say their analysis was retracted at the behest of employees working for the mining ...

French metals and mining firm Imerys SA will mothball a lithium project in southern England due to funding constraints and tough market conditions for the key battery metal. The company took an 80% ...

South Africa's Sibanye Stillwater said ‌on Monday it is seeking concessions from the European Union to shield Europe's first ...

Thea Riofrancos’s Extraction tells the story of how a critical mineral became the focus of a worldwide battle over the future of green energy and, by extension, capitalism. A worker holds lithium ...