Minor metal lithium is set to charge ahead to become the top material for batteries and vital for electric transport, but supplying any spike in demand could be fraught with difficulties.

Bolivia, a poor but resource-rich country governed for the past three years by leftist Evo Morales, has about 50 percent of the world's lithium deposits at about 5.4 million tonnes.

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Peru: They have quarreled over the 1880's pillaging of Peru's national library by Chilean troops. They have squabbled over who has the naming rights to pisco, the fiery grape brandy. Now, Peru and Chile are arguing over another hot-button issue: the origins of the potato. Peruvian agronomists, historians and diplomats are chafing at an assertion by Marigen Hornkohl, Chile's agriculture minister, who said on Monday, "Few people know that 99% of the world's potatoes have some type of genetic link to potatoes from Chile.' Peru, where the potato is a

Researchers have identified a new species of river dolphin in the Bolivian Amazon. Locally known as bufeo, the Bolivian river dolphin (Inia boliviensis) is smaller and lighter in colour than