Half of all metal mining worldwide occurs at less than 20km from protected lands
sgiljum2021-10-18T15:06:39+02:00Sebastian Luckeneder, Stefan Giljum, Anke Schaffartzik, Victor Maus & Michael Tost
In this Brief, we intersected global extraction data for nine metal ores with information about the location of protected areas, ecosystem types and water availability to explore the environmental risks related to the expanding mining sector.