NASA Prevents Lithium Mining in Desert Flat Used to Calibrate Satellites

Yale e360
Jun 23, 2023, 1:21 pm172 pts
Federal officials have blocked lithium mining in the heart of Nevada’s Railroad Valley, a dry lakebed that NASA says is needed to calibrate satellites used for, among other things, forecasting weather and studying climate change. Read more on E360 →

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