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How to Think About the Extractive Problem of Lithium Mining

Electrification of transportation and the power grid all but require lithium to make batteries—but mining it takes a toll on delicate ecosystems. Still, there are reasons for hope.

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

Mining trucks load lithium sulfate in Chile’s Atacama Salt Flat on July 29, 2024. Credit: Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu via Getty Images
An aerial view of burning houses as a wildfire blazes through Concepción, Chile, on Jan. 18. Credit: Guillermo Salgado/AFP via Getty Images

Patagonia Is Burning

By Anika Jane Beamer

At Climate Week NYC, an official said the United Kingdom would expand offshore wind as part of its national climate action plan. Here, in Belfast, Norther Ireland, wind turbine blades are assembled in Belfast Harbor. Credit: Peter Titmuss/UCG/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images

At Climate Week, Chile and the UK Commit to Ocean-Based Action Plans Ahead of COP30

By Teresa Tomassoni

A view of the Nevados de Chillán volcano during an eruptive pulse in Las Trancas, Chile, on April 6, 2018. Credit: Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images

Melting Ice Caps Could Bring Dormant Volcanoes to Life, Research from the Chilean Andes Shows

By Bob Berwyn

Since 2019, forest regions from the Chilean Coast to the Andes Mountains have turned brown as leaves lose their green color. Credit: Benito Rosende

In Chile, a Declining Forest Worries Scientists

By Andrés Muedano

Fish swim underwater at North Seymour Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos on March 11. Greenpeace has called for the creation of a high seas marine protected zone under the U.N. high seas treaty to secure a much wider area around the Galapagos islands. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

To Protect Vast Expanses of Ocean Beyond All National Boundaries, 60 Nations Must Ratify the Treaty of the High Seas

By Teresa Tomassoni

Márcio Aita Júnior and Senderson Laurido soar over crescent dunes in the Peruvian Sechura Desert using motorized paragliders. Credit: Mike Campbell-Jones

Watching Over a Fragile Desert From the Skies

By Humberto Basilio

Orcas swim off the coast of Crystal Cove State Park on Jan. 9 in Newport Beach, Calif. Credit: Mark Rightmire/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Killer Whales in Chile Have Begun Preying on Dolphins. What Does It Mean?

By Humberto Basilio

Bahía Lomas is known for its dense concentrations of migratory shorebirds from October to March. Credit: Antonio Larrea

In Chile’s Southern Tip, a Bet on Hydrogen Worries Conservationists

By Alexa Robles-Gil

Two patches of land sit in a dried up lake bed in 2022. These were once islands in Laguna de Aculeoa, a popular freshwater lake for fishing, boating and swimming, just an hour from Santiago, Chile. The lake dried up completely in 2018 due to the ongoing megadrought.

More Than a Decade of Megadrought Brought a Summer of Megafires to Chile

Story and photos by James Whitlow Delano

Demonstrators gather in Santiago, on Oct. 25, 2019, a week after protests started in Chile. Credit: Pedro Ugarte / AFP via Getty Images

Chilean Voters Reject a New Constitution That Would Have Provided Groundbreaking Protections for the Rights of Nature

By Katie Surma

Aerial view of a tailings dam-enbankment used to store byproducts of mining copper for the Minera Valle Central mining company, in Rancagua, Chile on May 31, 2019. Credit: Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images

Environmentalists in Chile Are Hoping to Replace the Country’s Pinochet-Era Legal Framework With an ‘Ecological Constitution’

By Katie Surma

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