Nevada
A plan to mine lithium could eradicate a Nevada flower. Is extinction just the cost of green energy?
Botanists express alarm that a rare plant, the Tiehm's buckwheat, won't survive where a lithium mine is planne
Botanist Jerry Tiehm, the curator of herbarium at the University of Nevada Reno, discovered the plant that now bears his name more than 40 years ago. It was early in his career, and Tiehm was driving through a remote central Nevada canyon while colle... [8737 chars]