We successfully plugged the hole in the ozone layer that was discovered in the 1980s by banning ozone-depleting substances ...

Transition metals have many applications in engineering, electrochemistry and catalysis. To understand their properties, the interplay between atomic localization and delocalization of the outer ...

To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals. Mining those metals from ...

Rising demand for the metals needed to power the global renewable energy transition potentially threatens more than a third of Africa’s great apes. Nearly 180,000 gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos ...

LONDON, March 22 (Reuters) - Commodity trading house Mercuria is ramping up exposure to metals needed for the green transition such as copper, cobalt and lithium, both through buying company stakes ...

For the first time, a team at BESSY II has succeeded in demonstrating the one-dimensional electronic properties of a material ...