Little of America’s energy comes from geothermal sources, but that could change quickly.

A generic 40-kilowatt-hour electric vehicle battery, about the size in a Nissan Leaf, requires over 8 pounds of lithium, over ...

Rather than pulling oil out of the earth, the hole he was helping drill would be used to store clean ... technology used to ...

Pfluger portrayed geothermal as the logical continuation of the fracking boom. For the Permian, he said, “it’s going to be the same people, the same firms, the same technology that is going to ...

The Texas rock formation known as the Eagle Ford shale was once at the heart of the oil and gas boom. But beneath its ... and Fervo Energy hope to tap for clean power. The field centered on ...

Instead of continuing to dig tunnels or pits, some scientists are looking to a promising yet challenging source of minerals: ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

In the process, they’re also raising challenging questions about how far we’ll need to stretch human ingenuity to meet the ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy ... its oceans. The seas contain millions ...