Decades of chemical-heavy agriculture in India have exacted an enormous price: declining soil fertility, erosion, and increasingly fragile ecosystems.

A new solvent-based technique could change how lithium is extracted from brines, potentially making the process faster, ...

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are primarily thought of as environmental pollutants, and most research ...

Rice researchers have developed a process to use PFAS to extract lithium from high-salinity brine pools, described in a study recently published in Nature Water.

Scientists have developed a cleaner way to separate cobalt and nickel from lithium-ion battery ...

Tartaric acid from grapes separates the critical elements electrolytically, avoiding complex solvent-based extraction ...