Flamingos in the Atacama region of Chile
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Lithium is a key material to help power phones, laptops and electric vehicles. The demand for it has increased by about 8.9 percent annually, per the Harvard International Review, and will likely continue rising as electric vehicles take over the roads as an attempt to curb carbon emissions and reduce the effects of climate change.
But the combination of lithium mining and climate change seems to have negative consequences on flamingos in South America, a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B finds.
A team of researchers examined five saline lakes in South America’s “Lithium Triangle,” an area covering parts of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, where more…