Ever heard of dysprosium? Well if you could get your hands on this rare earth metal you could fetch $3,600 a kilogram, a ten-fold increase in price above just a year ago. Materials like these are feeding into the ballooning high-tech and hybrid vehicle market but are increasingly hard to find. A promising stash was found more than 10,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. But analysts are now saying it’s all but impossible to get to it right now because of technological limitations in overcoming ocean pressure and corrosiveness. [Read more - California Watch].
San Francisco has been identified as one of the most vulnerable cities in the nation when it comes to water-related impacts of climate change....
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