Despite rare earth elements' importance in manufacturing cell phones, magnets and a host of other consumer and commercial electronics, the lack of a sustainable, environmentally friendly approach to ...

Malaysia discovers rare earth elements beneath protected forests, a finding that is now sparking global environmental and economic debate.

Rare earth elements are becoming increasingly critical to the development and deployment of next-generation technologies. Limited refining capacity and concentrated supply chains threaten innovation ...

Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to batteries and catalysts for chemical reactions. Since the 1980s, a race has ...

The Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine & Processing Facility in the United States in 2022 Credit: photo by Tmy350 / CC BY-SA 4.0 Rare earth elements are a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries, ...

Buried within the rocks of Mountain Pass are rare-earth elements—a group of metals that play a vital role in nearly every twenty-first-century technology. They help make the high-strength magnets that ...