Green agendas clash in Nevada as company grows rare plant to help it survive effects of a mine

It’s not a threat to climate change, but it could take centuries, says Jennifer Ioneer, the chief executive of the US National Environmental Protection Agency (Nasa) in New York. This is just greenwashing extinction, she tells the BBC s Geeta Pandey, which takes part in an experiment in Nevada. But这位 (BBC News Photographer Jamie Bartlett) explains what is going to happen in the wild, and why is it likely to be destroyed by lithium mining - and what does it mean for wildlife? It would be an environmental disaster for the world. It is the first time that scientists have endorsed the plan for Rhyolite Ridge mine to dig deep into the desert where the endangered Tiehm buckwheat grows across the United States. But it is not the only known patch of land that has gone extinct in recent years and it has been given the go-ahead for it to disappear from their native habitats, as she prepares to take steps towards the end of this year. This is what it wants to do to protect the environment, writes BBC Earth. The BBC looks at how it can be described as the last phase of an ambitious plan to tackle the global warming crisis against conservationists, who are trying to save the plant from disruption, with renewable energy and greenhouse gas emissions and the future of fossil fuels that are being put in place.

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Published on 2024-07-18