Before a solar panel can be installed on a roof or an electric bus can hit the streets, manufacturers first have to get their hands on key metals and minerals. But to meet the demands of the ...

Study reveals low levels of common contaminants but high levels of other elements in waters associated with an abandoned lithium mine DURHAM, N.C. -- Lithium ore and mining waste from a historic ...

Eyal Avramovich has built his career around a simple but demanding idea: technology should solve real problems, scale ...

An in-depth look at how cryptocurrency mining affects energy use, emissions, e-waste, and the push toward sustainable blockchains.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

Multiple factors are at work. New study uncovers concerning side effect of cryptocurrency boom: 'Positive shocks' first appeared on The Cool Down.

University of Manchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. If tens of thousands of miners turned up in the middle of a protected rainforest to mine for sapphires, you might expect ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, industrial and artisanal mining of cobalt and copper, essential for battery-powered technologies, poses risks to the reproductive health of women, preliminary ...

“Fruit of the poisonous tree” is a legal metaphor used to describe evidence obtained illegally. The logic is that if the source, the “tree,” of the evidence is tainted, then anything gained from the ...