Tag: Rare earths
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,...
Mining powers modern life, but can leave scarred lands and polluted...
Matthew Ross, Colorado State University
Modern society relies on metals like copper, gold and nickel for uses ranging from medicine to electronics. Most of these...
Could coal ash be a viable source of rare-earth metals?
Saptarshi Das, Rochester Institute of Technology; Eric Williams, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Gabrielle Gaustad, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rare-earth elements, including neodymium and yttrium,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
