How the US Can Mine Its Own Critical Minerals — Without Digging New Holes
<p>Piles of rare earth oxides praseodymium, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, samarium and gadolinium. Peggy Greb/USDA-ARS</p>
Every time you use your phone, open your computer or listen to your favorite music on AirPods, you are relying on critical minerals.
‘Biochar’ Can Naturally Clean the Pollution that Rain Washes Off Georgia’s Roads
<p>Professor Yongsheng Chen (left) and Ph.D. student Ahmed Yunus work with a wastewater reactor system in the lab. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)</p>
A new study shows how the material made from leaves and branches that collect on forest floors can be mixed with local soil to filter out road grime before it reaches waterways.
