The Great Basin, covering parts of seven states, could provide 10 percent of the U.S.'s energy needs via geothermal sources.

In a discovery that could fundamentally reshape humanity's energy future, scientists have identified an immense, virtually ...

This discovery isn’t just significant; it’s potentially world-changing, explained Dr. Alistair Finch, a geophysicist and ...

The USGS reported a lithium discovery the size of nine times ... A few months later, the U.S. Department of Energy discovered a massive lithium deposit beneath California's Salton Sea, holding ...

The Department of Energy announced in November 2023 that ... lithium mining in California comes as a recent analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey found that the Smackover Formation in Arkansas ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy ... Developed by the U.S. Geological Survey ...

“USGS energy assessments typically focus on undiscovered resources – areas where science tells us there may be a resource that industry hasn’t discovered yet. In this case, after a century ...

the geological era between 145.5 and 66 million years ago, the sedimentary rocks far underneath East Texas and Louisiana contain significant undiscovered energy resources, the U.S. Geological ...