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Today’s Top Stories from NBC News TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2021 Good morning, NBC News readers.
This morning we take a closer look at how skyrocketing demand for electric cars is impacting the environment. President Joe Biden is expected to deliver a stern warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the Russian troop buildup along the Ukraine border. And Afghan treasures now have some unlikely protectors.
Here's what we're watching this Tuesday morning. 
Electric cars are hailed as a climate-friendly alternative to the gas-guzzling vehicles that have long ruled America’s roads. Experts agree that they create a lower carbon footprint than traditional cars.
But even electric cars take a toll on the environment.
Nickel is a key component in the lithium batteries that power the vehicles, and there’s only one way to get it: digging up the earth.
This morning we take an in-depth look at how the soaring demand for nickel as electric car market explodes is impacting one of the most biodiverse places on earth: A rainforest on a stunning island in the Philippines.
Read our special report here. Tuesday's Top Stories
During a call between the two leaders Tuesday, Biden will lay out a range of actions the U.S. and its European allies would take should Russia invade Ukraine with any of the 90,000 combat troops it has amassed along the border. Check out an explainer on what's behind the recent tensions. 
In a 36-page memo, Col. Earl Matthews called the generals "absolute and unmitigated liars" for how they characterized events. 
Smollett, the actor accused of filing a false police report in 2019 to gain public attention, took the stand Monday in his criminal trial and stuck to his story that he was the victim of a hate crime in his Chicago neighborhood. 
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The National Museum of Afghanistan is open once again and the Taliban, whose members once smashed their way through the facility destroying irreplaceable pieces of the country’s national heritage, now appear to be among its most enthusiastic visitors.
The museum in southwest Kabul, which hosts artifacts from the Paleolithic period to the 20th century, reopened just over a week ago for the first time since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in mid-August amid the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops.
“Generations can learn from this, and what we had in the past,” said Saifullah, a 40-year-old Taliban member from Wardak province touring the museum for the first time this week. “We have a rich history.”
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