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Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon ...

For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold. Today, the precious metal is just as sought after, but the ...

For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold. Today ... mining activity and lower at the mining-impacted site adjacent to protected forest and the sites far from mining ...

Illegal gold mining remains rampant in the Amazon rainforest despite government efforts to curb it, reveals new analyses of satellite data from 2023 ...

Mercury pollution in the Amazon is caused by gold mining. Discover how tree core samples identify the concentration and spread of this toxin.

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For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold. Today, the precious metal is ... sites close to mining activity and lower at the mining-impacted site adjacent to protected forest ...