Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies use a wide range of techniques to capture CO2 from the air and store it durably, ...

Rare earth elements are needed for everything from green technology to consumer goods like laptops and batteries. Mining them ...

Conservationists say retrieving mineral-rich rocks will destroy sea life. Environmental studies show conflicting results.

Iron-rich hematite, commonly found in rocks and soil, turns out to have magnetic ... "This is the beauty of science: you can take this old, earth-abundant material and find this very timely ...

which would help get those rocks to port.) And the nation’s landmark climate-infrastructure law, the Inflation Reduction Act, was set up to redirect mineral supply chains away from China ...

The flights, happening across much of New England, will image geology as part of a national effort to modernize the region's ...

Lightweight lithium metal is a heavy-hitting critical mineral, serving as the key ingredient in the rechargeable batteries that power phones, laptops, electric vehicles and more. As ubiquitous as ...

NASA has found a rock on Mars that it has dubbed Skull Hill. The rock is known as a "float rock," and NASA has no idea where it came from.

There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.

At the Berkeley Pit, researchers hope to extract valuable metals to increase U.S. production of rare earths used in electric ...

It’s one of the most profound questions in science – did life ever ... dioxide and water should have reacted with rocks to create carbonate minerals. However, rover missions and analysis ...