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HotSpots H2O: In Chile’s Lithium Mines, Climate and Environment Are Dueling Priorities

Circle of Blue

Caption: The Salar de Atacama salt works in Chile in 2016. They are taking everything away from us,” Carlos Guzman, a member of the Colectivo Apacheta, an Indigenous group that opposes mining in the Atacama region, told the Washington Post in 2016. Photo © NASA Johnson /Flickr Creative Commons. These lands are ancestral. By the fields.

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Penn State To Survey Farmers In 14 Counties On Their Use Of Conservation Practices

PA Environment Daily

This survey follows a successful effort undertaken in 2016, when farmers across Pennsylvania’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay watershed were invited to fill out a similar survey. Yet that positive story often is not told. We are giving farmers a chance to tell that story."