EditorialSome of the 30,000 trees planted for shade and to slow evaporation at Verrado, an 8,800-acre planned community, in Buckeye, Ariz., Dec. 19, 2022. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)
EditorialAn aerial view of evaporation ponds at a lithium plant in the Atacama Desert of Chile, an essential component of batteries that is mined from the country’s salt flats, Dec. 15, 2021. (Marcos ZegersThe New York Times)
EditorialEvaporation ponds run by the state lithium company at a vast area of salt flats at Salar de Uuyuni in Bolivia on Sept. 2, 2021. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)