Lithium Fields and Water Politics

On the size and impact of our "green energy" mining industries

Lithium Mining in the Salar de Atacama, Chile, as captured by the MSI instrument aboard the ESA Sentinel-2A and -2B satellites on January 8, 2023.

From a distance, trauma on Earth can look eerily beautiful.

The Atacama desert, the driest non-polar desert in the world and a place where experiments for Mars simulations are sometimes run, lies in the north o…