The spiralling environmental cost of our lithium battery addiction
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As the world scrambles to replace fossil fuels with clean energy, the environmental impact of finding all the lithium required could become a major issue in its own right Here’s a thoroughly modern riddle : what links the battery in your smartphone with a dead yak floating down a Tibetan river ? The answer is lithium – the reactive alkali metal that powers our phones, tablets, laptops and electric cars. In May 2016, hundreds of protestors threw dead fish onto the streets of Tagong, a town (...)