Surprisingly, the majority of mining deforestation (a full 90%) occurred outside the mining leases granted by Brazil's government, the new study finds. Skip to main content.

Mining-related deforestation in the Amazon Date: June 4, 2021 Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Summary: If you're wearing gold jewelry right now, there's a good chance it came from an ...

The town gets its name from the district it sits in, which is home to half of the world’s supply of a group of metals known ...

The Amazon rainforest -- considered one of the world's most important climate regulators - continues to face serious threats ...

Deforestation and Mining Increased in Tropically Forested Countries During COVID. A new report outlines the harm this has caused to Indigenous populations.

In Indonesia, deforestation in mining areas intensified between 2010 and 2014. The study authors suspect a surge in overseas demand for coal, mined extensively in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan ...

A model developed by Brazilian researchers shows that opening up protected areas of the Amazon to mining projects would lead to the deforestation of 183 square kilometers (km²) due directly to ...

From 2001 to 2020, 120,000 hectares (296,525 acres) of forest loss was related to mining, much of it linked to surface coal mining in Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee.

Mining is one of the top drivers of deforestation globally, with huge swaths of forest being cleared for excavation pits, access roads and workers’ settlements. Yet details about mining’s ...

ZITÁCUARO, Mexico – “As long as the butterflies keep coming, we’ll still have work here,” says Javier Ambrocio, looking out over the Sierra Chincua Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary. A cold ...

Mining-induced deforestation was 12 times greater outside the mine lease areas than within them, extending as far 43.5 miles (70 km) beyond mine borders.