Starting just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, a vast underground deposit of lithium stretches south for 25 miles. A key ...

Duke researchers found no evidence of impacts to domestic well water from legacy, or historic, lithium mining in North Carolina. Used in products like rechargeable batteries, lithium is a silvery ...

Freshwater essential to lithium mining is running low in the world’s “Lithium Triangle,” a mineral-rich region in the Andean Plateau that stretches across parts of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile and ...

Lithium-ion batteries power nearly everything we use today—smartphones, laptops, tablets, toothbrushes, and even electric cars. These rechargeable tools have revolutionized modern life, but they often ...

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 ...

(WKYT) - A lithium-ion battery pack caused a fire in Lawrenceburg on Monday. While the fire was able to be contained quickly, there is still a present concern about the expansive hazards associated ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In southeastern Brazil’s Jequitinhonha Valley, a region that is home to up to 85% of the country’s known lithium deposits, residents say the ...

Known as ‘white gold’, lithium is among the most important mined elements on the planet – ideal for the rechargeable batteries used in tech products. Can Europe’s largest deposit bring prosperity to ...

LEBANON, Ohio (WXIX) - The Lebanon Fire Department is warning people about the dangers of lithium-ion batteries. From laptops and cell phones to vapes and electric vehicles, most people are surrounded ...

The Salton Sea has long been a place of eerie beauty and environmental contradiction. In Gabriel B. Wisdom’s latest no ...