Over the last 20 years, mining activities with severe ecological and social harms have surged worldwide. Since 2000, the global extraction rate has doubled for materials such as bauxite, copper, gold, iron, manganese and nickel. Nickel has already reached a scale 120% times greater than the cumulative extraction before 2000, while cobalt extraction has already surpassed historical levels by 150%. A study found that, in 2019, five of the six areas on land with the highest diversity of species collectively … Continue reading From Ore to Omen: Mining’s Environmental and Social Wake-Up Call