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Cultivated Tiehm's buckwheat is seen at Ioneer's Tiehm's buckwheat conservation greenhouse on May 8, 2024 in Gardnerville, Nevada. Tiehm's buckwheat, a rare and endangered wildflower endemic to the Silver Peak Range in Esmeralda County, Nevada grows beside Rhyolite Ridge, the site of a proposed lithium mine. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

A lithium mine versus a rare flower

Matthew Rozsa
The aerial view of Salton sea in California, USA (Getty Images/Yunpeng Li)

Salton Sea eyed for lithium extraction

June Kim - Undark
The Llipi pilot plant in Uyuni, south from La Paz, on August 17, 2015 (Getty/Aizar Raldes)

The social cost of lithium in Chile

Tushar Khurana - Grist
Thacker Pass (U.S. Bureau of Land Management)

Lithium mine controversy in Nevada

Gabriela Aoun Angueira - Grist
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The body of a VW ID.3 hangs on a production line during a press tour of Volkswagen's Transparent Factory. At the site in Dresden, 35 fully electric vehicles are produced every day. (Effect due to long exposure) (Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

US wants to change EV batteries

Maddie Stone - Grist
An oil well in Syria. (Getty Images)

Resource wars in a renewable future

Michael Klare - TomDispatch.com
Elon Musk | Luis Arce claims victory and celebrates with supporters during a press conference following the general election of MAS (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Morales stans mock Musk's imperial rant

Matthew Rozsa
Elon Musk (AP/Stephan Savoia)

Elon Musk, the lithium neo-conquistador

Vijay Prashad, Alejandro Bejarano - Independent Media Institute
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The Llipi pilot plant in Uyuni, south from La Paz, on August 17, 2015 (Getty/Aizar Raldes)

Lithium mining's toxic toll

Nicole Karlis
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