Martin Cheek first entered the Boyboyba Forest in southeastern Guinea in September 2022 to look for an extremely rare plant whose entire population is estimated to number just 100. The weather, though ...

Two scenes. Two storytellers. Two visions for a climate-altered American West. On an overcast spring morning, I hopped a low metal fence off a lonely dirt road in the Nevada desert, following botanist ...

The decision highlights the growing challenge faced by North American miners to develop new mining projects from precious metals, base metals to lithium given stringent environmental legislation. The ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — U.S. land managers said Thursday they’ve completed a final environmental review of a proposed Nevada lithium mine that would supply minerals critical to electric vehicles and a clean ...

There is a rare desert flower that is only found in a three-square mile area of Nevada. Also targeted for that area are plans for a new lithium mine. The U.S. – and the world – needs lithium to meet a ...

Scientists have described a new species of flower that appears to only grow in a small forest patch on the slopes of a mountain range in Guinea, West Africa, where extensive open-cast mining for iron ...