Tag: Mining
How the US can mine its own critical minerals − without...
Yuanzhi Tang, Georgia Institute of Technology and Scott McWhorter, Georgia Institute of Technology
Every time you use your phone,...
US-Ukraine deal highlights Ukraine’s wealth of critical minerals, but extracting them...
Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
Ukraine’s mineral wealth has been a key factor in its negotiations with the...
Raw materials, or sacred beings? Lithium extraction puts two worldviews into tension
Mario Orospe Hernández, Arizona State University
Located in the heart of South America, Bolivia contains the largest lithium deposits...
Deep seabed mining plans pit renewable energy demand against ocean life...
Scott Shackelford, Indiana University; Christiana Ochoa, Indiana University; David Bosco, Indiana University, and Kerry Krutilla, Indiana University
As companies...
Plans for deep seabed mining pit renewable energy demand against ocean...
Scott Shackelford, Indiana University; Christiana Ochoa, Indiana University; David Bosco, Indiana University, and Kerry Krutilla, Indiana University
As companies...
Scientists at work: We use environmental DNA to monitor how human...
Marie Simonin, Inrae and Emily S. Bernhardt, Duke University
Rivers, lakes and wetlands cover just 1% of the Earth’s...
How engineered bacteria could clean up oilsands pollution and mining waste
Vikramaditya G. Yadav, University of British Columbia
Rampant industrialization has caused our planet to warm at an unprecedented rate....
The US is worried about its critical minerals supply chains –...
Jordy Lee, Colorado School of Mines and Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines
When U.S. companies build military weapons...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
