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 ...

Two non-profits want court to reconsider a claim they filed in 2024 that the environmental impact report for the Hell’s Kitchen lithium mine near the Salton Sea neglects potential problems with air ...

One of the country’s largest lithium deposits exists underground outside Charlotte, North Carolina. Communities living in the area were concerned about the effects of historic lithium mining on ...

Novandino Litio, the joint venture between Chile’s Codelco and SQM, will submit the environmental impact study for its Salar Futuro lithium project in June, local media reported on Thursday. The ...

Large-scale lithium mining may impact scarce and precious water resources and balance in Argentina’s arid ecosystems, says Clemente Flores, president of the El Angosto Indigenous community. Flores ...

This is a summary of a story that originally appeared on the Nicholas School of the Environment website. Duke researchers found no evidence of impacts to domestic well water from legacy, or historic, ...

A pioneering accord meant to give Indigenous communities more of a say over lithium mining has left people in the Atacama desert divided like never before ...

“Yet in the altiplanic salt flats—territories inhabited by Colla, Quechua, Aymara, and Atacameña Indigenous Peoples—this ...

Critical minerals—such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, rare earth elements, copper, and graphite—are the backbone of the global energy transition. They power electric vehicles, enable renewable energy ...