Carbon emissions from Peruvian gold mining ‘alarming,’ experts say

Damage caused by gold mining in Madre de Dios is so extensive that it can be seen from space and has encroached into Tambopata as well as the park’s surrounding buffer zones. In addition to the immediate environmental damage caused by mercury poisoning and deforestation, the study points to the contribution gold mining is making to another problem as well: climate change.
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