A lungful of hydrogen sulfide nearly killed John Burba a few months into his first job in the West Texas oil patch. He’d grown up in the region, where his dad worked for Gulf Oil as a drilling ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has taken equity stakes in Canadian company Lithium Americas and its Nevada mining joint venture with General Motors as part of a renegotiation of a federal loan.

A new report on the impact of lithium mining in South America’s lithium triangle finds the rush to extract lithium in Chile’s Salar de Atacama has had a severe impact on the area’s water supplies.

A recent study from Harvard Medical School asks whether the element lithium might be a key factor in whether someone develops Alzheimer's disease. Led by Dr. Bruce Yankner, professor of genetics and ...

The Trump administration said it will step up scrutiny of imports of steel, copper, lithium and other materials from China to enforce a US ban on goods allegedly made with forced labor in the ...

In a major new finding almost a decade in the making, researchers at Harvard Medical School say they’ve found a key that may unlock many of the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease and brain aging — the ...

A state regulatory panel sided with Standard Lithium over a group representing south Arkansas landowners at a hearing in Magnolia on Wednesday, voting unanimously to set a 2.5% royalty rate for ...

Even US manufacturers could feel the effects of higher prices. This story is part of MIT Technology Review’s "America Undone” series, examining how the foundations of US success in science and ...

A massive lithium discovery beneath California's Salton Sea has set off a high-stakes push for what some have implied could be America's best shot at lithium self-sufficiency. The U.S. Department of ...

Across the country, companies have been installing giant batteries that help them use more wind and solar power. That’s about to get much harder. By Brad Plumer The sweeping tariffs that President ...

2024 was “a year of growth,” according to fire-suppression company Fire Rover, but that’s not an entirely good thing. The company, which offers fire detection and suppression systems based on thermal ...