Pub Date : 2025-06-13DOI: 10.1038/s43017-025-00686-7
Beatrice Asenso Barnieh, Clare Davis
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment interviewed Beatrice Asenso Barnieh about their project investigating water quality in Ghana.
《自然评论:地球与环境》就加纳水质调查项目采访了Beatrice Asenso Barnieh。
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Pub Date : 2025-06-13DOI: 10.1038/s43017-025-00685-8
Hannah Whitby, Clare Davis
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment interviewed Hannah Whitby about their Royal Society International Exchanges grant.
《自然评论:地球与环境》就皇家学会国际交流基金采访了汉娜·惠特比。
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Pub Date : 2025-06-13DOI: 10.1038/s43017-025-00694-7
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment is pleased to launch a new fellowship Q&A series to introduce newly funded projects and share tips on how to approach proposal writing and the application process.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-13DOI: 10.1038/s43017-025-00687-6
Alberto Caracciolo, Clare Davis
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment interviewed Alberto Caracciolo about their project investigating the petrology and paleomagnetism of Holocene eruptions in the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland, with implications for the ongoing eruptive cycle.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-12DOI: 10.1038/s43017-025-00683-w
Stefan Giljum, Victor Maus, Laura Sonter, Sebastian Luckeneder, Tim Werner, Stephan Lutter, Julia Gershenzon, Megan J. Cole, Juliana Siqueira-Gay, Anthony Bebbington
Global metal extraction is increasing, owing to rising mineral demands from infrastructure development and the growing need for metal-intensive renewable energy technologies to mitigate climate change and phase out coal mining. However, extraction of metal ores also drives impacts on land use, water resources and biodiversity. In this Review, we evaluate mining trends of 47 metal ores between 1970 and 2022 and explore the environmental consequences. Global extraction of crude metal ores has nearly quadrupled, from 2.7 gigatonnes (Gt) in 1970 to almost 9.4 Gt in 2022, with the greatest increases in Oceania (+1,222%), South America (+929%) and Asia (+285%). Ore-specific mining activities are generally concentrated, with the top-five producers contributing on average 82.7% of the global supply in 2022. The impacts of mining are also concentrated. In 2022, about 50% of the 100,000 km2 global mining areas were located in Russia, China, Australia, the United States and Indonesia. Mining-induced water consumption, pollution and biodiversity loss substantially affect local ecosystems, with tropical rainforests and deserts being especially vulnerable. Around 70% of global metal extraction is linked to international supply chains. Enhanced environmental assessments, stricter implementation of policies, and coordinated actions across sectors throughout supply chains (mining, processing, consumers and financial markets) can help to mitigate the environmental impacts of mining. Global metal ore extraction has increased almost fourfold since 1970. This Review explores the drivers, patterns and environmental consequences of the growth of metal ore extraction and discusses interventions to reduce negative impacts across metal supply chains.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-12DOI: 10.1038/s43017-025-00689-4
Antaya March, Samuel Winton
Negotiations for the Global Plastics Treaty are yet to reach an agreement owing to structural challenges and voting deadlocks. To move forwards, we need clear and comprehensive definitions of plastic pollution through its entire lifecycle, efforts to resolve procedural deadlocks and coordinated action from ambitious countries.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-05DOI: 10.1038/s43017-025-00690-x
Jisoo Kim
Jisoo Kim explains how Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy can be used to explore the magmatic history of a volcano.
Jisoo Kim解释了傅里叶变换红外光谱(FTIR)如何用于探索火山的岩浆历史。
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Pub Date : 2025-06-04DOI: 10.1038/s43017-025-00693-8
Deniz Vural
Deniz Vural explains how using modern echosounder measurements together with historical data can improve the accuracy of bathymetric maps and monitor changes in the Arctic coastal zone.
Deniz Vural解释了如何将现代回声测深仪测量结果与历史数据结合起来,提高测深图的准确性,并监测北极沿海地区的变化。
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{"title":"Using fungi for the bioremediation of lunar regolith","authors":"Jessica Atkin","doi":"10.1038/s43017-025-00691-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43017-025-00691-w","url":null,"abstract":"Jessica Atkin describes the use of a microbial seed coating to enable plant cultivation in lunar regolith.","PeriodicalId":18921,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Earth & Environment","volume":"6 9","pages":"550-550"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145122810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}