Environmental impact of direct lithium extraction from brines

ML Vera, WR Torres, CI Galli, A Chagnes… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Evaporitic technology for lithium mining from brines has been questioned for its intensive
water use, protracted duration and exclusive application to continental brines. In this …

Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world

D Cunillera-Montcusí, M Beklioğlu… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
The widespread salinisation of freshwater ecosystems poses a major threat to the
biodiversity, functioning, and services that they provide. Human activities promote freshwater …

Diversity and connectedness of brine shrimp viruses in global hypersaline ecosystems

X Dong, C Li, Y Wang, T Hu, F Zhang, F Meng… - Science China Life …, 2024 - Springer
Brine shrimp (Artemia) has existed on Earth for 400 million years and has major ecological
importance in hypersaline ecosystems. As a crucial live food in aquaculture, brine shrimp …

Lithium mining, water resources, and socio-economic issues in northern Argentina: We are not all in the same boat

WFD Paz, M Escosteguy, L Seghezzo, M Hufty, E Kruse… - Resources Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Lithium mining in Argentina is often associated to social injustices, unequal access to
information, and conflicts around issues such as water consumption. Different stakeholders …

Human-induced sharp salinity changes in the world's largest hypersaline lagoon Bay Sivash (Crimea) and their effects on the ecosystem

E Anufriieva, E Kolesnikova, T Revkova, A Latushkin… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lakes and lagoons play an important role worldwide, and salinity fluctuations significantly
affect their ecosystems. Bay Sivash, the world's largest hypersaline water body, underwent a …

Regional and fine-scale local adaptation in salinity tolerance in Daphnia inhabiting contrasting clusters of inland saline waters

KI Brans, CF Vad, Z Horváth… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the spatial scales at which organisms can adapt to strong natural and human-
induced environmental gradients is important. Salinization is a key threat to biodiversity …

A possible unique ecosystem in the endoglacial hypersaline brines in Antarctica

M Guglielmin, M Azzaro, P Buzzini, D Battistel… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Here, we present the results related to a new unique terrestrial ecosystem found in an
englacial hypersaline brine found in Northern Victoria Land (Antarctica). Both the …

The structuring effects of salinity and nutrient status on zooplankton communities and trophic structure in Siberian lakes

E Zadereev, A Drobotov, O Anishchenko, A Kolmakova… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many continental saline lakes are under the effects of salinity increase and anthropogenic
eutrophication exacerbated by global change. The response of the food web to these drivers …

Elevated inorganic carbon and salinity enhances photosynthesis and ATP synthesis in picoalga Picocystis salinarum as revealed by label free quantitative …

J Singh, S Kaushik, C Maharana, GD Jhingan… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Saline soda lakes are of immense ecological value as they niche some of the most exclusive
haloalkaliphilic communities dominated by bacterial and archaeal domains, with few …

Scale‐dependent population drivers inform avian management in a declining saline lake ecosystem

AM Van Tatenhove, J Neill, RE Norvell… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Shrinking saline lakes provide irreplaceable habitat for waterbird species globally.
Disentangling the effects of wetland habitat loss from other drivers of waterbird population …