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Mining is an environmental and human rights nightmare. Battery recycling can ease that.
Recycling provides economic, national security, and environmental benefits. But the United States is playing catch-up to Asian countries, particularly China.
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Why Biden and Trump both support this federal mineral mapping project
A U.S. Geological Survey effort to find underground deposits of clean energy metals has gotten bipartisan support.
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The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, from water to weeds
Not all critical minerals need to come from digging up the earth.
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In the race to find critical minerals, there’s a ‘gold mine’ literally at our shoreline
Instead of continuing to dig tunnels or pits, some scientists are looking to a promising — but challenging — source of minerals: seawater.
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![View of an estuary going through Gaza.]()
Environmentalists in Israel and Palestine fight to save cross-border water resources
"The health of Palestinians affects the health of Israelis and vice versa. And the best example is water."
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![Three young men planting a tree into the ground.]()
Why a tree-planting nonprofit in Chicago is suing the Trump administration
Similar programs across the country are also struggling.
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Trump repeals America’s first-ever tax on greenhouse gases before it goes into effect
The methane fee would have had the same impact as taking 8 million gas-powered cars off the road.
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![Women hold signs in the street that say Save Noaa and Science Saves Lives]()
![Women hold signs in the street that say Save Noaa and Science Saves Lives]()
‘We’re losing our environmental history’: The future of government information under Trump
The administration’s wrecking-ball approach has raised profound questions about the integrity and future of vast amounts of information.
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Forget about your carbon footprint. Try ‘climatemaxxing.’
Climate action is a guilt trip. Let’s make it aspirational instead.
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![A photo of two workers installing solar panels on a roof]()
Utilities may soon pay you to help support a greener grid
Electricity usually runs one way, but EV and large home batteries could provide a vast network of backup energy to draw on.
