Although this may not be related to batteries, this just demostrate how the environment is being damaged by our own hands.
Do you remember such as.....ozone layer damage causing lots of skin cancers, forest harvesting causing floods and other disasters, rising earth temperature to cause rising of water level due to melting ice.....too many to say...
The cryosphere is that part of the Earth made of frozen water and soil: Iceworld, if you will. And according to a new study to be published in January, it's a world that is vanishing rapidly, with potentially devastating consequences