Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity

Renewable energy development threatens many globally important biodiversity areas

(2020) Jose A. Rehbein et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sustainable minerals and metals for a low-carbon future

(2020) Benjamin K. Sovacool et al.   SCIENCE

Environmental co-benefits and adverse side-effects of alternative power sector decarbonization strategies

(2019) Gunnar Luderer et al.   Nature Communications

Global-scale remote sensing of mine areas and analysis of factors explaining their extent

(2019) Tim T. Werner et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Global metal flows in the renewable energy transition: Exploring the effects of substitutes, technological mix and development

(2018) André Månberger et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Present and future biodiversity risks from fossil fuel exploitation

(2018) Michael B. J. Harfoot et al.   Conservation Letters

Mining and biodiversity: key issues and research needs in conservation science

(2018) Laura J. Sonter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Changes in human footprint drive changes in species extinction risk

(2018) Moreno Di Marco et al.   Nature Communications

Mineral supply for sustainable development requires resource governance

(2017) Saleem H. Ali et al.   NATURE

Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

(2017) Laura J. Sonter et al.   Nature Communications

Temporally inter-comparable maps of terrestrial wilderness and the Last of the Wild

(2017) James R. Allan et al.   Scientific Data

Catastrophic Declines in Wilderness Areas Undermine Global Environment Targets

(2016) James E.M. Watson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Conservation Biology: The Importance of Wilderness

(2016) Thomas E. Lovejoy   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers

(2016) Sean L. Maxwell et al.   NATURE

The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people

(2016) Brett R. Scheffers et al.   SCIENCE

Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

(2016) Oscar Venter et al.   Nature Communications

The performance and potential of protected areas

(2014) James E. M. Watson et al.   NATURE

Integrated life-cycle assessment of electricity-supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies

(2014) Edgar G. Hertwich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Renewable energy resources: Current status, future prospects and their enabling technology

(2014) Omar Ellabban et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Global spatial coincidence between protected areas and metal mining activities

(2013) América P. Durán et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Metals for a low-carbon society

(2013) Olivier Vidal et al.   Nature Geoscience

Biodiversity Risks from Fossil Fuel Extraction

(2013) N. Butt et al.   SCIENCE

Mining and the African Environment

(2013) David P. Edwards et al.   Conservation Letters

Comparing Scales of Environmental Effects from Gasoline and Ethanol Production

(2012) Esther S. Parish et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Challenges in Metal Recycling

(2012) B. K. Reck et al.   SCIENCE

Metal requirements of low-carbon power generation

(2011) René Kleijn et al.   ENERGY

The Lithium future-resources, recycling, and the environment

(2011) Thomas Cherico Wanger   Conservation Letters

Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) and its conservation implications

(2010) Michael B. Mascia et al.   Conservation Letters