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Environmental Impacts of Lithium Batteries

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A photo of a small Lithium Battery. Source:  Wikipedia     I bet you did not know that the exact battery used in our "Eco-Friendly" developments such as electric cars are actually part of a large environmental issue too. I did not know this either, and was very surprised to learn more about this in the article from  Wired .  Lithium is gathered by mining, usually through salt flats in the "Lithium Triangle", which is located over Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. These locations are known to be some of the driest places on earth. To extract the lithium,  miners drill a hole in the salt flats and begin pumping a salty, mineral-rich brine to the surface. This "brine" is then left for months where it will evaporate, which creates a mixture of manganese, potassium, borax and lithium salts which is filtered and placed into another evaporation pool. After 12- 18 months, the mixture has been filtered enough to become lithium carbonate, which can then...
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Theodore Roosevelt

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photo of Theodore Roosevelt from  Wikipedia Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States. President Roosevelt is often considered the "conservationist president." Without Roosevelt's work, this country would not be where it is today, and I firmly believe that the environment would have deteriorated faster. He was a hunter all his life, and was able to see the first hand results of overgrazing and even lost his ranch due to it. A lot of peop le though, did not agree that our resources would ever run out, but Roosevelt, who was seeing what was happening, would respond with " We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources. But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields and obstructing navigation." Because of...
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Sustainable Choices to Protect Eastern Gorillas, Week 14

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A female Eastern Gorilla and her infant.  Wikipedia, labeled for Reuse. For my endangered species, I decided o n the Eastern Gorilla, which is also known as the " Gorilla beringei." The eastern gorilla has many distinct characteristics, such as a very broad chest and body, dark hair covering the entire body bar the hands, feet, and chest. Out of all animals, gorillas are the closest to humans, and resemble  homo sapiens very much. The eastern gorilla's habitat is the forest, mostly in  Africa.   Gorillas are omnivores, which mean they tend to eat mostly plants, but also eat insects and rodents, but are not predators of many large animals. The biggest predator of the gorilla is the leopard, but other than that, the biggest threat to the eastern gorilla population is human related. The average lifespan of the eastern gorilla is about 35 years old with a generation length of 20 years. Through this time, the average eastern gorilla has an offsp...
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