DW Planet A – Can this nickel-eating plant help solve the battery crisis?

This video highlights how Metalplant is turning nature into a miner. In northern Albania, fields of nickel-hyperaccumulator plants are grown on ultramafic soil where they naturally pull nickel up from the ground and store it in their biomass. Instead of traditional mining, the plants are harvested and processed into battery-grade nickel, and the process is paired with enhanced rock weathering to permanently capture CO₂ from the atmosphere — creating a carbon-negative nickel production method.