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“The Lithium Rush: Can the Salton Sea Save Us?” EcoJustice Radio. (11/17/2025).

“Calif. region faces ‘serious risks’ from lithium mining project, report says.” SFGATE. (10/8/2025).

“Festival paralelo al Seminario International del Litio para analizar el impacto de la minería.” Página 12. (10/2/2025).

“Salton Sea’s white gold rush: promise or peril?” The Los Angeles Post. (9/26/2025).

“When lithium mining starts, who benefits, and who’s at risk? Inside this Salton Sea case.” CalMatters. (9/18/2025).

“New Report Raises Alarm Over Lithium Valley Development.” Calexico Chronicle. (9/18/2025).

“CCV report warns of risks from Hell’s Kitchen lithium project without stronger safeguards.” Desert Review. (9/18/2025).  

“Green Extractivism: Can Our Deserts Survive Our Thirst for Lithium?” PBS SoCal. (6/2/2025).

“$540 Billion Lithium find in California could leave poor communities behind, activists say.” San Diego Post. (4/17/2025).

“Massive Salton Sea lithium project gets judge’s go-ahead, ending advocates’ lawsuit.” CalMatters. (1/29/2025).

“Environmental Health Summit Revolves Around Lithium Topics.” Calexico Chronicle. (10/28/2024).

“EPA settles case with Hell’s Kitchen Geothermal over wetlands discharge impacting on Salton Sea.” Imperial Valley Press. (10/19/2024).

“Data centers, chip plants raise green concerns.” EcoAméricas. (8/2024).

“Explosion of power-hungry data centers could derail California clean energy goals.” Los Angeles Times. (8/12/2024).

“Not just Nevada – lithium is draining water across the world, study reveals.” Las Vegas Review-Journal. (7/28/2024).

“Boiling Point: The Salton Sea Lithium Rush.” Los Angeles Times. (7/25/2024).

“Lithium Critical to the Energy Transition Is Coming at the Expense of Water.” Inside Climate News. (7/18/2024).

“Lithium Valley Outreach Contracts End with Final Summaries.” Calexico Chronicle. (6/20/2024).

“Review / Reseña de Blair, James J.A. Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic.” A Contracorriente. (5/28/2024).

“Book Review: Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic. By James J. A. Blair.” Modern British History. (5/15/2024).

“Book review editorial: Recent contributions in political and legal anthropology.” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. (5/14/2024).

“Water Wrangling: Environmental justice advocates are increasingly worrying about how much of the Imperial Valley’s dwindling water supply could go to the emerging lithium industry.” Politico: California Climate. (4/19/2024).

“Sinclair on Blair, ‘Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic.’” H-Environment. (4/9/2024).

“In Rush for Lithium, Miners Turn to the Oil Fields of Arkansas.” Yale Environment 360. (2/29/2024).

“Lithium Valley | Episode 1: The White Gold Rush and Episode 4: Whose Health? Consider the Consequences.” Electric Futures Podcast, USC Annenberg Center for Climate Journalism and Communication. (1/24/2024).

"Lithium Extraction from Geothermal Brine: Technology and Impacts Expert Briefing." California Council on Science and Technology (12/15/2023).

“Book Review: James J. A. Blair, Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic.” The British Journal for the History of Science. (12/23/2023).

“James J. A. Blair, ‘Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic’ (Cornell UP, 2023).” New Books Network. (10/13/2023).

“Lithium mining is changing the Atacama Desert.” The World. (11/14/2022).

“See how electric cars are changing this South American desert.” The Washington Post. (9/5/2022).    

“Featured Q&A: Is Chile Losing Ground to Other Lithium Producers?” Energy Advisor, Inter-American Dialogue. (9/2/2022).

“El gran agujero de la extracción del litio ¿Cuáles son las opciones en Chile y Bolivia?” El Ciudadano. (8/25/2022).

“Why Lithium Power Politics Are Playing out Very Differently in Chile and Bolivia.” Peoples Dispatch. (8/18/2022).

“Chile’s lithium mining dilemma: Reconciling economic opportunities with environmental concerns.” Fortune (5/23/2022).

“Why Lithium Mining for EV Batteries Should Be Our ‘Absolute Last Resort’…and biking, walking and transit should come first.” StreetsBlog USA (5/3/2022).

“Lithium Mining is Leaving Chile’s Indigenous Communities High and Dry (Literally).” NRDC Dispatch (4/26/2022).

“As Lithium Drilling Advances at the Salton Sea, Researchers Work Out the Details.” KCET (3/21/2022).

“Chile is in for a mining boom. Could a new constitution prevent environmental catastrophe?” Grist (1/28/2022).

“Uncharted Horizons: Season 3, Episode 1.” Learn Through Discovery (11/4/2021).

“California outlaws gas-powered landscaping equipment; campus follows suit.” The Poly Post (11/2/2021).

“Mining Atop a Massacre.” Atmos (10/18/2021).

“New political climate: Biden prioritizes rejoining Paris Agreement.” The Poly Post (11/24/2020).

“Why Advocates are Skipping International Climate Talks to Stand with Chilean Activists.” Gizmodo (12/4/2019).

Radio interview on “La Otra Cara de la Moneda,” Coyhaique, Chile (6/20/2019).

“Anthropology in Environmental Advocacy.” CUNY Graduate Center Alumni Aloud podcast (2/20/2019).

“The Desire to Stop Canadian Tar Sands Transcends Borders.” NRDC in Action (1/10/2019).

 “El Hombre de los Ríos.” La Segunda (9/21/2018).

“Red por los Ríos Libres rechaza proyecto hidroeléctrico Alto Maipo.” El Paradiario 14 (7/20/2018).

“La escasez de agua es inminente en Chile.” Diario Clever (7/20/2018).

“Red por los Ríos Libres manifiesta su rechazo a proyecto hidroeléctrico Alto Maipo.” Bio Bio Chile (7/20/2018).

“The Rise of Chile’s River Protectors” NRDC in Action (7/10/2018).

 “Experto internacional critica falta de cuidado de las cuencas chilenas.” Diario y Radio Universidad de Chile (7/2/2018).

“Política energética para Aysén: organizaciones sociales entregan propuesta al gobierno.” La Tercera (5/10/2018).

“Chile quiere avanzar en la protección de sus ríos y conservación de sus parques.” Corresponsables (4/9/2018).

“ONG norteamericana: ‘Hay victorias muy emocionantes como HidroAysén, pero mi preocupación es que sean a corto plazo.’” Soy Chile (subsidiary of El Mercurio) (3/15/2018).

“GC Grad Seeks Environmental Justice, with Mellon Funding.” The Graduate Center, City University of New York Newsletter (6/28/2017).

Radio interview on the 35^th Anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War with Latino Media Collective, 89.3FM, Washington, D.C. (4/14/2017).

Anthropology and Environment Society Facebook page profile picture feature (7/10/2015).

“Exploring the Falklands’ Future.” City University of New York: Outstanding Students (2014).

“Scholar will continue to ‘extract’ the Falklands future thanks to scholarship.” Penguin News (3/28/2014).

Radio interview with Falkland Islands Radio Service. Stanley, Falklands (Malvinas) (3/10/2014).