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A person inspects a fire extinguisher while holding a clipboard in a maintenance area.

Home

Smoke alarm, lithium-rated extinguisher save home from lawnmower battery fire

A 3D illustration of three transparent blocks connected by pipes, with swirling colorful liquids inside.

Tech

Australia's biggest flow battery is being built on a dead coal mine, with no lithium in sight

A close-up view of a pile of various batteries, including AA, AAA, and coin cell types.

Tech

South Korea taps brewing microbe for cleaner way to pull 92% of lithium from spent batteries

A digital illustration of a battery pack with a temperature gauge and sodium (Na) and lithium (Li) labels.

Tech

China just put sodium batteries in mass-produced EVs as lithium's price edge evaporates

A person vaping outdoors, exhaling vapor while holding a smartphone.

Tech

California moves to ban disposable vapes amid trash fires sparked by lithium batteries

An energy storage system arranged in a grid.

Tech

CATL is mass-producing sodium-ion batteries and chasing 'breathable' lithium-air

Two vaporizers, one green and one black, held in hands over a wooden table with a plant and other devices nearby.

Tech

US recalls 5,000 portable vaporizers after lithium-ion batteries can explode, catch fire

A white spodumene rock.

Tech

MIT researchers find a room-temperature way to pull lithium from hard rock at half the cost

Five vials containing colorful liquids and a pile of salt on a reflective surface.

Tech

New desalination method avoids brine and could pull salt and lithium from seawater

A cluttered arrangement of circuit boards and tangled cables.

Tech

Europe is losing a hidden stockpile of lithium cobalt and rare earths in its own waste stream

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Outdoors

Tesla lithium refinery found to have leaked toxic metals and 'poison' into Texas ditch

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Tech

$65 billion worth of lithium beneath Appalachian Mountains could power US for centuries