A 2026 study by Cheng, Hoang, Shinoda, Islam, Motoshita, Kadoya, and Kanemoto titled 'Mapping global resource driven nature loss in the mining sector from 2001 to 2022' was published in Nature Communications.
Notes on verification
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Sources
- What's new | Biodiversity Division, NIES (seed:environment_and_wildlife)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-73792-9 (corroboration)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42209538/ (corroboration)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13388966/ (corroboration)
- https://sites.google.com/site/keiichirokanemoto/home (corroboration)
- https://unit.aist.go.jp/irc-npt/npt/en/result.html (corroboration)