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Artisanal gold mining polluting Peruvian biodiversity hotspot -study

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | November 17, 2019 | 7:00 am News Latin America Gold 

Researchers at Dartmouth College analyzed satellite data and discovered that artisanal mining is altering the water clarity and dynamics of the Madre de Dios River watershed in the Peruvian Amazon. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National...

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