Climate Home: Lure of mining for precious metals in South America and Europe is creating new carbon emissions not controlled by international agreement
Fimiston Open Pit, known as the Super Pit, is Australia's largest open air gold mine
The collapse of the Soviet Union left Bulgaria achieving in the 1990s what the rest of the world is working hard to manage in the 2020s, a reduction in its carbon dioxide emissions of more than 45%.
But while a lot of inefficient mines and smelting plants have closed,...