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[https://e360.yale.edu/features/canada-critical-minerals-mining by Ed Struzik 21/6/23 YaleEnvironment360] | [https://e360.yale.edu/features/canada-critical-minerals-mining by Ed Struzik 21/6/23 YaleEnvironment360] | ||
In the wilderness north of Great Slave Lake, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, mining companies are eyeing a potential treasure trove of critical minerals as demand for lithium, nickel, graphite, and copper has risen sharply to meet the needs of the burgeoning electric vehicle and solar power industries. | In the wilderness north of Great Slave Lake, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, mining companies are eyeing a potential treasure trove of critical minerals as demand for lithium, nickel, graphite, and copper has risen sharply to meet the needs of the burgeoning electric vehicle and solar power industries. | ||
=====Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00557-w by Laura J. Sonter 18/10/17 nature communications] | |||
Mining poses significant and potentially underestimated risks to tropical forests worldwide. In Brazil’s Amazon, mining drives deforestation far beyond operational lease boundaries, yet the full extent of these impacts is unknown and thus neglected in environmental licensing. Here we quantify mining-induced deforestation and investigate the aspects of mining operations, which most likely contribute. | |||
