by Aiden Tuan | Feb 20, 2025 | ScienceWire
For Oregon State University, Nancy Steinberg writes about a deep examination into the minerals that are critical to many of modern day inventions. Despite the global shift towards renewables and other green technologies, we are still dependent on the minerals that...
by Susan Keown | Jan 19, 2025 | ScienceWire
Now on sale from Penguin RandomHouse is Vince Beiser’s new book, “Power Metal: The Race for the Resources that Will Shape the Future.” From the publisher: “The powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental...
by Susan Keown | Jul 7, 2023 | ScienceWire
Part of a special series in GeekWire, a story by Lisa Stiffler (@lisa_stiffler) takes readers to rural communities in Eastern Washington, where new climate technology facilities are opening. The businesses operating the new facilities are developing technologies to...
by Susan Keown | Apr 5, 2023 | ScienceWire
Vince Beiser (@VinceBeiser) won in the journalism category in the 2022 NSWA Best of the Northwest Awards for his story on the ongoing efforts to trap carbon in stone as a way to slow climate change. The judges wrote that Beiser used an engaging writing style to...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 3, 2012 | ScienceWire
Giant flatscreens and environmentalism are completely compatible in Bryn Nelson’s New York Times article on marketing energy-efficient products. Find out what that little orange EnergyStar tag means to you, the planet, and the store that wants to sell you a 60-inch,...
