This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...
It takes lithium and cobalt to build the batteries that power electric vehicles and e-bikes, nickel and rare earth elements ...
Extracting resources from the Earth always comes with costs. As we race toward a cleaner, greener future, there is a risk of ...
As electric-vehicle adoption rises across the globe, the race to find new deposits of critical minerals like lithium ... frontiers of EV battery mining. Illustration: George Downs/The Wall Street ...