One of Earth's rarest wildflowers is in the crosshairs of a lithium mining juggernaut
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Deep in Nevada's remote Esmeralda County, an unassuming little plant has found itself an unlikely combatant in the high-stakes battle over lithium mining and green energy. Tiehm's buckwheat, a delicate yellow-flowered perennial, exists nowhere else on Earth except a small stretch of public land called Rhyolite Ridge. — Read the rest

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