BBC reports, listen by clicking the photo: The Salar de Uyuni is a stunning pristine salt flat high in the Andes – it is also the world’s biggest lithium deposit, worth many billions of dollars. Ed Butler asks whether this as yet untapped resource will prove a blessing or a curse for the people of…
Day: August 2, 2020
‘Scrotum frog’ facing extinction without multinational effort to save it
Jeff Parsons reports for Metro: In a time when it seems like most species are under some form of threat, spare a thought for the scrotum frog of South America. Found in Lake Titicaca on the border between Bolivia and Peru, this slimy, wrinkled little amphibian is on the edge of being wiped out. Covered…
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