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Friday, December 17, 2021

FEATURE-Amazon tribe suffers mercury contamination as illegal mining spreads

 That would include into indigenenous territory, where mining is currently forbidden by Brazil's constitution. The spread of mines - with mercury used to extract gold from other minerals - is also helping drive Amazon deforestation, which has soared 22% in the last year to the highest levels since 2006, a government report showed last month.

read more... https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/science-environment/1850980-feature-amazon-tribe-suffers-mercury-contamination-as-illegal-mining-spreads

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