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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New EPA Proposal Would Strip States’ and Tribes’ Authority to Block Oil and Gas Pipelines, Other Infrastructure Projects The Army Corps of Engineers Wants to Dredge the Cape Fear River.

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 ...

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 ...

As Nevada gears up for the next few years of its lithium boom, a new study is calling attention to what’s most at stake — water. Lithium, used in electric vehicle batteries, is considered a critical ...

For more than half a century, a deep communal well at the edge of Bikita Minerals quietly sustained life in Murape village.From 1972, it quenched thirst, fed gardens and anchored livelihoods in one of ...

GREEN RIVER, Utah (AP) — 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 ...

Increased renewable energy production requires a massive increase in lithium production. Lithium extraction in South America's Atacama Desert is highly water-intensive and threatens local water ...