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Lithium mining looks set to reshape Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni salt flat
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How Bolivia’s gold rush is poisoning Indigenous communities
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Could coal mining waste provide crucial elements for green tech?
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Animals abandon deep-sea mining areas for over a year
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Machine recycles scrap aluminium directly into vehicle parts
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Tracing lithium's atomic signature could help make ethical batteries
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Rare earth elements for smartphones can be extracted from coal waste
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Race to start commercial deep-sea mining puts ecosystems at risk
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Will a scramble to mine metals undermine the clean energy revolution?
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Ants use soil physics to excavate metre-long tunnels that last decades
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Plants that suck metals from the soil can be farmed to make our tech
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