GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ<p>This does not bode well for one of our National Wildlife Refuges.</p><p>Scientists identified an astonishing 18 MILLION TONS of LITHIUM buried beneath California’s largest lake. Extracting this resource comes with challenges from environmental risks to geopolitical considerations.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lithium</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birding</span></a> <a href="https://interestingengineering.com/energy/us-hits-lithium-jaxkpot-worth-billions" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">interestingengineering.com/ene</span><span class="invisible">rgy/us-hits-lithium-jaxkpot-worth-billions</span></a></p>