What are the potential impacts of increased mining activity for lithium and other battery metals in the Amazon region, driven by the transition to electric vehicles and renewable energy?

... percent of tropical rainforest ecosystems will be destroyed by the year 2020. ... More than 20 percent of rainforest in the Amazon has been razed and is gone ... Cattle ranching accounts for 80% of current deforestation throughout the Amazon. ... Brazil has 88% of the Amazon herd, followed by Peru and Bolivia. While ... Oct 31, 2023 ... ... rainforests [source: Butler]. It's believed that about 20 percent of the Amazon has been lost since the mid-1970s. Although conservation ... China has become Brazil's main trading partner, giving it significant influence over the Amazon forest ... Almost 20 percent of the rainforest has been destroyed ... Between 17 and 20 percent of the Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, has been destroyed over the past fifty years. The majority of deforestation has ... Mar 21, 2024 ... Meanwhile, in Colombia, which hosts about 10 percent of the rainforest, Amazon ... Despite successes in the Amazon, deforestation has ... The deforestation rate refers to the period between August 2021 and July 2022. The states leading the destruction in 2022 were Pará, Amazonas and Mato ... Mar 7, 2022 ... We find that more than three-quarters of the Amazon rainforest has been losing resilience since the early 2000s, consistent with the approach to a critical ... Oil palm plantations currently cover more than 27 million hectares of the Earth's surface. Forests and human settlements have been destroyed and replaced by “ ... Dec 19, 2020 ... ... were cleared––an area about the size of the island of Hawaii. “The media has been showing that the Amazon has been destroyed and [that] we ...