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In Serbia there is once again a major open conflict between the government and the peasants.The object of the dispute is the project, on which the executive led by Aleksandar Vučić has put the brand, of open a huge lithium mine in the agricultural valley of Jadar, in the western part of the country.In fact, the area contains one of the largest lithium deposits in Europe, an essential mineral for the production of electric car batteries.And while the government emphasizes the fact that the mine is a great opportunity for the economic development of the country and for the multiplication of jobs, farmers, environmentalist movements and critics get in the way, stating that the operations would produce an irreparable pollution of groundwater and rivers that cross the valley, with possible contamination of agricultural land.Today, in Belgrade, a large demonstration will take place which will bring together thousands of people, who will ask for a law that bans the extraction of lit...

Chile conserves, in its subsoil, some of the largest reserves of lithium in the world, a fundamental material for the ecological transition and therefore increasingly sought after.The extraction of this material, which has undergone a surge in recent years, it is however causing the collapse of the Salar de Atacama, the large saline lake located in the Antofagasta region, in the north of the country.This was discovered by some researchers from the University of Chile, who found that the extraction of brine, rich in lithium, is drying up the aquifers and causing the lake to sink at a worrying rate of 1 or 2 centimeters per year. Chile is the second largest producer of lithium in the world and, with the advancement of the "ecological transition" and therefore with the increase in demand for lithium batteries, the extraction of this material proceeds at an ever-increasing pace.This, inevitably, has irreversible consequences on the environment.Through the use of data collected be...

The map of Ispra and the areas where the mines can be reopened.Minister Urso:we cannot depend on China

The European shift towards electric cars will cause demand for these raw materials to surge.And now explorations have restarted in our country too

The EU regulation on sustainable batteries is now law on the territory of all member countries.The Twenty-Seven will be provided with the ability to strengthen sustainability standards for all batteries and regulate their entire life cycle, from production to recycling.The aim is to reduce environmental and social impacts through new stringent rules for operators, who will have to verify the origin of the raw materials used for the batteries placed on the market.For this reason, new labeling and information guidelines on components are also foreseen new “electronic drum passport”.The objectives to combat the abandonment of rare components such as lithium, cobalt, copper, lead and nickel have also been established:by 2031 more than 80% must be recoverable after consumption.Finally, starting in 2027, consumers will need to be able to remove and replace the batteries in their electronic devices at any point in their life cycle. Batteries and derived waste have been regulated a...