Implementing an online module about impacts of pollution from gold mining in an undergraduate ecology course in the Pacific Northwest, USA

 A Rainforest with a Gold Chain” explains the impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon, focusing on measuring the spread of mercury used to precipitate gold from sediments into air, water and soils, and subsequent bioaccumulation and biomagnification through trophic chains.

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