Two years of gold mining devastates Peruvian peatlands, outpacing damage of the last 30 years
New research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that artisan gold mining in the southern ...
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Gold Mining Is Triggering Carbon Chaos In The Amazon Rainforest Of Peru
There’s a chance the gold ring on your finger or the chain around your neck has a link to the prolific destruction of the ...
Gold Mining Unleashes a Carbon Time Bomb in the Amazon
Gold mining in Peru’s Amazon is now destroying carbon-storing peatlands at an alarming rate. In just two years, over half of all recorded peatland destruction has occurred, releasing vast amounts of ...
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The relentless grip of the Amazon's garimpo
Five months after Brazilian authorities launched a large-scale crackdown on illegal gold mining along the Amazon's Madeira ...
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Yanomami youth turn to drones to watch their Amazon territory
In the Yanomami Indigenous Land, the largest in Brazil, leaders believe in their youths’ skills to maintain their ancestors’ ...
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Potassium mining project in Brazil's Amazon rainforest divides Indigenous tribe
LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out ... Potash Corp., a Toronto-based mining company listed in the New ...
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Potassium mining project in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest divides Indigenous tribe
LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon ... Potash Corp., a Toronto-based mining company listed in the New York ...