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Illegal Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental Degradation in Yanomami Indigenous Lands, and Regulatory Failures

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos, Ana Claudia de Araujo Moxotó, Jurandir Moura Dutra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Petrography and Petrochemistry of Metamorphic and Igneous Rocks of the “Yeniseyskiy” Site

Russian Journal of Earth Sciences
In 2023, geological exploration of the “Yeniseyskiy” site (Krasnoyarsk Region), where a deep geological repository for radioactive waste (DGR) is planned, resumed.
Minaev Vasilii, Ozerskiy Andrey, Poluektov Valery, Petrov Vladislav, Murashov Konstantin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early proterozoic Cu(Au) and Fe ore deposits associated with regional NaCl metasomatism in northern Fennoscandia

, 1997
Scapolite is widely distributed in 1.9-2.5 Ga volcano-sedimentary rocks and 1.77-2.2 Ga igneous rocks over several hundred square kilometres in northern Fennoscandia, comprising northern Sweden, northern Finland and adjacent parts of Norway and Russia ...
Perdahl, Jan-Anders,, Rudyard Frietsch, Tuisku, Pekka,, Pekka Tuisku, Olof Martinsson, Frietsch, Rudyard,, Jan-Anders Perdahl, Martinsson, Olof,   +7 more
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Green Transition, Extractive Continuities: Lithium Mining and the Environmental Contradictions of Sustainability

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global decarbonization has positioned lithium as a strategic mineral for electric vehicles, battery storage, and low‐carbon development. Yet its extraction raises serious environmental, political, and justice concerns that complicate dominant narratives of clean energy progress.
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

Late Cretaceous Extensional Collapse Driven by Delamination in Central Tibet Prior to India‐Asia Collision

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
A diverse range of dikes in the western Lhasa–Qiangtang collision zone provides constraints on the evolution of post‐collisional tectonomagmatic processes and the growth of the Tibetan Plateau.
Yao Xiao, Xi Jun Liu, Hao Wu, Min Liu, Hai Yong Liu, Yu Jia Song, Fei Liu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Zeolite Mineral Resource Base of Russia

Georesursy
The main zeolite deposits in Russia and the other CIS nations are considered, large zeolite provinces are identified, and the most promising territories for expanding the mineral resource base of the Russian Federation are determined.
P. E. Belousov, P. E. Kailachakov, A. O. Rumyantseva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chinese resource security policies and the restructuring of the Asia-Pacific iron ore market [PDF]

, 2012
This paper reviews the restructuring of the Asia-Pacific iron ore market in the wake of the rise of the Chinese steel industry. Prior to the 2000s, this market was characterised by two key features-high firm-level concentration on both the producer and ...
Wilson, J.D.
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Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The past century of massive increases in human population and resource use has seen many undesirable environmental effects, ranging from biodiversity loss to climate change. But a research gap exists, as the ultimate causes are often not described with precision or mentioned at all.
Mark Keegan, Anastasia Pseiridis, Philip Cafaro, Jane O'Sullivan, William Rees, Estelle Monique Sidze, Lawrence Whitmore, Enrique J. Derlindati, Mohammad Mainul Islam, Khaoula Houssini, S. Irudaya Rajan   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Application of Circular Economy Principles to Power Generation: Extending the Life of A Hydropower Plant by Pumped Hydro Energy Storage

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The application of circular economy, which aims to maximize efficiency and reduce waste, to renewable energy sources necessitates, given the intermittent nature of the latter, robust energy storage solutions to ensure grid stability and avoid wasting energy.
Ó. Martín‐Llorente, E. Jiménez‐Macias, J. C. Sáenz‐Diez Muro, E. Martínez‐Cámara, J. Blanco‐Fernández   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acid Resistant and Highly Silver Selective Membranes Based on Charged Nanoporous 2D‐Materials

Small, EarlyView.
In this work, new membranes based on charged & nanoporous nanosheets with unprecedented selectivity to silver versus a wide range of other metallic ions are reported. Furthermore, a demonstrated and lead specific intralamellar lead pathway is demonstrated. A potential applicability for ubiquitous silver in WEEE is validated.
Sarah M. Chevrier, Thibault Rosier, Bo Han, Lina Cherni, Fabien L. Olivier, Hélène Isnard, Jean‐Christophe P. Gabriel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source