Mapping global resource driven nature loss in the mining sector from 2001 to 2022
Yu-Tong Cheng, Nguyen Tien Hoang, Yushin Shinoda, Kamrul Islam, Masaharu Motoshita, Taku Kadoya, Keiichiro Kanemoto · 2026
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Description
Yu-Tong Cheng's team mapped nature loss from mining worldwide between 2001 and 2022, classifying about seventy thousand sites by commodity with satellite images, machine learning, and cloud computing. Half of the world's mining areas had lacked documented impact data, and commodity-level analysis was rare.
Mining cleared 16,268 square kilometres of forest, nearly two thirds of it in tropical and subtropical regions. About half tied to gold, coal, bauxite, nickel-cobalt, and copper in Amazon, Southeast Asian, and Congo Basin forests. Biodiversity risk did not always track deforestation, so the commodity maps let firms and regulators target mitigation where harm runs highest.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yu-Tong Cheng, Nguyen Tien Hoang, Yushin Shinoda, Kamrul Islam, Masaharu Motoshita, Taku Kadoya, Keiichiro Kanemoto |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |