The Latest Breaking News from lithium

Researchers say new battery can be used in vehicles and drones meant for high altitudes

Lithium's journey from the Big Bang to powering electric vehicles highlights unsustainable mining practices. The article argues for a Rights of Nature approach over critical minerals, criticizing oversized EVs and market-driven resource nationalism. True sustainability requires shifting from infinite growth logic to valuing nature's complexity, not just changing fuels.

Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found.

You might have heard the common claim that electric cars aren’t really green – that their lithium-ion batteries rely on “blood” minerals such as cobalt, mined in terrible conditions.

Clean technologies depend on critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt. Over 65% of the world’s cobalt is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nearly 40% of the world’s manganese is mined in South Africa. Substantial deposits of lithium are found in Zimbabwe. Ghana is emerging as a miner…

Albemarle stock dipped after earnings, but rising lithium demand, particularly from AI-driven power needs could create a compelling long-term entry point

Geologists have refocused their attention on a large area of high desert in northern Nevada and southern Oregon. Researchers discovered substantial lithium mineralisation in clay-rich layers beneath the McDermitt caldera, an old supervolcano that occurred approximately 16.4 million years ago. Recent research imply that the resource could be one of…

A new sodium-ion battery technology has arrived in a new Chinese EV – and it promises to beat lithium-ion batteries in one important way.

The case raises the stakes after EU officials refused to strip the Barroso mine of its ‘strategic’ status in November.