But record gold prices have fuelled illegal mining globally, driving deforestation, mercury poisoning, armed conflict and human and animal trafficking. In Bolivia, legal and illegal mining has spread into protected areas, unhindered by lax regulations.
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Thursday, April 23, 2026
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Gold Rush, Green Ruin
At the heart of the destruction facing Juma’s community is illegal gold mining: prospectors who move into indigenous territories, poison rivers with mercury to extract gold, and leave behind ecological ruin. When I spoke to Ladkani about this back in 2023, gold was already a major driver of Amazonian destruction.
read more... https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3053289/
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
THE COST-TRANSFER DOCTRINE: Environmental Degradation, Regulatory Failure, and the Constitutional Dimensions of Pollution-Driven Tariff Increases in Ghana
Recent peer-reviewed research documents contamination levels in major water bodies that exceed safe thresholds by orders of magnitude. Mercury concentrations of up to 0.14 mg/L, lead concentrations reaching 0.95 mg/L, and arsenic levels as high as 0.67 mg/L have been recorded — all substantially above World Health Organisation drinking water guidelines
read more... https://www.modernghana.com/news/1487003/the-cost-transfer-doctrine-environmental-degrada.html