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Humanity Is Desperate for Rare Earth Elements. This Plant Is Growing Them Right Under Our Feet.

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: For more than three decades, scientists have explored ways to leverage certain metal-producing powers of hyperaccumulators, a family of more than 700 ...
Newsweek

Plant ‘Breakthrough’ Could Help Ease Rare Earth Metal Crisis

A "breakthrough" discovery about the fern species Blechnum orientale could help to ease the rare earth element (REE) crisis and pave the way for a “green” extraction process for the metals. While the ...
Forbes

Low Emission Rare Earth Metals Manufacturing From Domestic Sourced Minerals

Rare earth metals that the company extracts from the rusty colored rock. (Photo by Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Mining minerals from natural deposits is costly in both economic ...
Mother Jones

These Special Plants Accumulate Critical Metals Without Destructive Mining

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Alpine pennycress is a charming little plant. Its low-growing rosette of green leaves ...
Mother Jones

Wait, We Can Mine Valuable Metals Using Shrubbery?

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Malaysia’s Kinabalu Park, which surrounds Mount Kinabalu, the 20th-largest peak in ...