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Escalating Fire-Driven Forest Loss in Protected Tropical Forests

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By Christopher G. Bousfield, Oscar Morton
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction Climate change is driving global shifts in temperature and rainfall regimes (Jolly et al. 2015), leading to increasingly frequent extreme events such as drought, heatwaves and wildfires (Seidl et al. 2017). Since 2001, fires alone have caused > 150 million hectares (Mha) of forest loss globally (Tyukavina et al. 2022).
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The 20km ripple effect: How mines can trigger distant deforestation in Africa

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By Oscar Morton, Chris Bousfield
| Down To Earth Verified
The global push for a transition to green energy has sparked demand for critical minerals such as lithium, vanadium, copper and cobalt. These are needed for electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels. Sub-Saharan Africa hosts  of the world’s mineral reserves, including huge quantities of critical minerals: 92 per cent of all platinum, 36 per cent of all chromium, 54 per cent of all manganese and 56 per cent of all cobalt.
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The 20km ripple effect: How mines can trigger distant deforestation in Africa

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By Oscar Morton
| HT Syndication
India, June 30 -- Africa's drive to supply critical minerals for the green energy transition is triggering extensive, often overlooked deforestation far beyond mine sites. Using satellite data, researchers found that every hectare cleared for mining causes an additional 34 hectares of forest loss up to 20km away. This is driven by roads, settlements and agriculture supporting new mines.
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