When South African startup Renergen bought the production and exploration rights for some grassy fields near Virginia, a town in the country’s Free State province, the founders were expecting to find ...

Helium -- essential for many medical and industrial processes -- is in critically short supply worldwide. Production is also associated with significant carbon emissions, contributing to climate ...

It seemed like it would be so easy a few years ago. Rising demand and dwindling supply for helium — the nonflammable gas that lifts balloons and allows MRI machines to operate — caused prices to ...

A daunting list of key industries the world over is now wondering where their future supplies of helium will come from. What battery metals are to gigafactories, helium is to everything from ...