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 ...
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 ...
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Kakamega gold mines: How toxic mercury exposure is affecting miners’ health, ruining environment
Gold mining in Bushiangala, Kakamega County, supports many families but poses health risks, especially for women exposed to ...
Plants near small-scale gold extraction sites absorb mercury at rates ranging from 10 to 50 times higher than what researchers found in distant fields, and the contamination travels through the air ...
In a recent study published today in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal Biogeosciences, scientists have confirmed that mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is ...
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 ...
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