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#Mining sub-Saharan Africa is expanding rapidly. This poses a key threat to tropical forests.

"For every hectare of direct deforestation due to the mine footprint, mining triggers, on average, 34 hectares of additional offsite loss within five years through ancillary activities, including agriculture and settlements. Mines extracting cobalt and copper—key energy transition minerals—caused the highest amount of additional deforestation."

Morton et al. (2026). "Mining triggers extensive additional deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa" https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10551-2 🧩 🧵

#extraction #landscape #pollution #cobalt #copper #gold #climateChange #rivers #deforestation #soil #carbon #causality #land #footprint #forests #landLoss #landUse #Africa #Congo #DRC #Centrafrique #Zambia #ZA #SouthAfrica

https://www.europesays.com/uk/304070/ Paleontologists Discover First Evidence of Multispecies Dinosaur Herding #alberta #Ankylosauridae #Canada #Ceratopsia #Ceratopsidae #Cretaceous #DinosaurProvincialPark #footprint #Footprints #fossil #Herd #herding #NorthAmerica #Science #SkylineTracksite #Theropod #Tyrannosaur #Tyrannosauridae #UK #UnitedKingdom

Paleontologists Discover First Evidence of Multispecies Dinosaur Herding

Paleontologists say they have discovered the 76-million-year-old footprints of a ceratopsian dinosaur-dominated herd in Dinosaur …
#NewsBeep #News #Science #alberta #Ankylosauridae #Canada #Ceratopsia #Ceratopsidae #Cretaceous #DinosaurProvincialPark #footprint #Footprints #fossil #GB #Herd #Herding #northamerica #SkylineTracksite #Theropod #Tyrannosaur #Tyrannosauridae #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/32205/

A behavioural crisis is driving ecological overshoot and threatens the fabric of complex life on Earth

"We explore three drivers of the behavioural crisis in depth: economic growth; marketing; and pronatalism. These three drivers directly impact the three ‘levers’ of overshoot: consumption, waste and population...The evidence indicates that anthropogenic ecological overshoot stems from a crisis of maladaptive human behaviours...We have in place to deliver a framework for shifting social norms and other necessities for addressing the behavioural crisis."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00368504231201372

"Where discussion of climate often centres on carbon emissions,
a focus on overshoot highlights the materials usage, waste output and growth of human society, all of which affect the Earth’s biosphere. Just one-quarter of the world population is responsible for nearly three-quarters of emissions...Solutions that do not tackle the underlying drivers of our growth-based economies will only exacerbate the overshoot crisis."

"The system is driving us to suicide. It’s conquest, entitlement, misogyny, arrogance and it comes in a fetid package driving us to the abyss.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists
#overshoot #material #footprint #consumption #waste #eneergy #renewables #population #reproduction #growth #FossilFuel #climate #BehaviouralCrisis #attention #marketing #PR #InvisibleGovernance #status #habitus #SocialNorms #desire #msm #education #renewables #citizenry #ScienceDisconnect #SystemicChange #AnthropoTechnics #transformation #SocietalBreakdown #MaladaptiveBehaviour #ethics #biosphere #HabitablePlanet #BiodiversityCrisis