A Rare Plant Got Endangered Species Protection This Week, but Already Faces Threats to Its Habitat Lithium led Tiehm’s buckwheat to evolve on a 10-acre plot in Nevada. Now the flower is threatened both by a mine for the metal that’s critical for the energy transition and grazing cattle. By Wyatt Myskow
Powering Electric Cars: the Race to Mine Lithium in America’s Backyard By Aime Williams, The Financial Times
Inside Clean Energy: In a World Starved for Lithium, Researchers Develop a Method to Get It from Water By Dan Gearino
Environmentalists in Chile Are Hoping to Replace the Country’s Pinochet-Era Legal Framework With an ‘Ecological Constitution’ By Katie Surma
As the US Rushes After the Minerals for the Energy Transition, a 150-Year-Old Law Allows Mining Companies Free Rein on Public Lands By Jim Robbins