- Poorly monitored and often illegal small-scale gold mines have released “devastating” levels of toxic mercury in one of the most protected and biodiverse areas of the Amazon rainforest, threatening human health and hampering attempts to conserve fragile tropical ecosystems https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-27997-3 34 comments science
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- Gold Mining Is Poisoning Amazon Forests with Mercury - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gold-mining-is-poisoning-amazon-forests-with-mercury/ 5 comments
- In Bolivia, Mercury Pollution Spreads Amid a Surge in Gold Mining - Yale E360 https://e360.yale.edu/features/bolivia-mercury-gold-mining 0 comments
- ‘This river is doomed’: Peru’s gold rush threatens waterways and the people who depend on them | Global development | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/dec/22/illicit-gold-mining-loreto-peru-indigenous-peoples-fight-protect-amazon-rivers 0 comments
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