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As night falls in Chiles Atacama desert, the worlds driest, a drilling machine extracts brine to measure levels of lithium -- a crucial mineral for the global switch to cleaner

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While EV makers reiterate how their cars combat climate change, others note critical mineral mining environmental and social impacts on traditional people, and point to both supply chain and planetary boundary problems.

As lithium producers warn of shortages amid a global push for electrification, oil and gas companies are making forays into extracting the in-demand metal—and banking on nascent technologies to “become big in lithium.”

Lithium holds the promise of revolutionizing the carbon-based global economy. But it has a dirty little secret in the intense water usage involved in its extraction.

Mattresses, tents, and makeshift soup kitchens were spread across Belgrano square, in the dry summer sun of San Salvador de Jujuy. It was December 2015,

Even with recent reports of a temporary gas surplus, Europeans, nevertheless, face a harsh winter as analysts warn that a ...

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The need to go green is clearer than ever, but America’s aggressive climate policies are coming at a significant expense to developing economies

In Chile’s Salar de Atacama, locals watch helplessly as their ancestral lands wither and die, their precious water ...