Across the Amazon, miners pour litres of deadly mercury into the water’s ecosystem as they amalgamate the gold, while dredging has turned the “Blue River” brown.
A study revealed 306,000 locals in the municipality of Santarém had dangerously high levels of mercury in their blood from eating affected fish.
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