What are the potential impacts of mining for rare earth elements in the Amazon on deforestation and biodiversity?

About 17 percent of the Amazonian rainforest has been destroyed over the past 50 years, and losses recently have been on the rise. The organization Amazon ... 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 ... Apr 7, 2023 ... ... forest had been destroyed in March in the Brazilian Amazon. That is a 14 percent increase compared to March 2022, when far-right president ... ... were serving meat likely fed soy grown on destroyed Amazon rainforest. After ... percent of the soy produced in the Amazon region. This way, the Soy ... Jun 8, 2023 ... ... percent of the population of Brazil, where two-thirds of the Amazon lies. Brazil has long been a pioneer in forest conservation, with ... Major countries: About 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest lies within the ... The situation is changing however: deforestation has been trending sharply upward ... Sep 8, 2020 ... Deforestation. Nearly 6,700 km2 of forest has been destroyed so far in 2020. This year, as in previous years, most deforestation has taken ... Nov 10, 2021 ... ... Rainforest and Basin, and Borneo (the world's third largest island) in the Malay Archipelago. Twenty-percent of the Amazon has been destroyed ... Aug 30, 2022 ... But in Brazil, home to about 60 percent of the Amazon, nearly one-fifth has already been destroyed. And virtually no one, law enforcement ... ... percent of tropical rainforest ecosystems will be destroyed by the year 2020. ... Today at least 18.8 percent of rainforest in the Amazon has been razed and is ...