BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A global mercury conference in Geneva faced sharp criticism Friday from environmental and Indigenous groups for failing to take stronger steps against mercury use in ...
Long assumed by some to have been diluted and washed away over time, mercury contamination from 19th-century gold mining is still moving through Nevada’s Carson River, with levels in some waterfowl ...
A small, leafy, green peanut plant grows out of a patch of dirt. When David McLagan’s team sampled mercury isotopes in cassava, maize, and peanut crops (like the one shown here) grown downwind of a ...
Gold prices soar. Illegal mining spreads. The Amazon rainforest pays the price. NHK traveled to Peru's front lines to examine ...
SAN JOAQUIN, Mexico (AP) — A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of Earth’s most toxic elements. Buried in red stripes ...
Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury contamination.
Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury contamination ...
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