ArticleNature communications2025
Overlooked deforestation from global mining activities in the 21st century.
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- Can Artificial Tree Cavities Provide Population Support to Cavity-Dependent Non-Flying Mammals?Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Global mining has undermined forest conservation within and beyond protected areas.Nature communications · 2026Article
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Abstract
Mining is a major driver of deforestation, yet the full scale of its contribution to global natural forest loss and associated carbon emissions remains obscured by the incomplete inventories of mining activities. Here, we present a comprehensive global mining inventory, including 236,028 mining areas with an overall accuracy of 87.37% to quantify direct deforestation and the associated forest carbon emissions from mining activities between 2001 and 2023. Our results reveal that mining-induced deforestation is two to three times higher than previous estimates from existing datasets, accounting for 19,765 km
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