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Peru Declares Emergency to Fight Mercury Pollution from Gold Mines

2016-05-24 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: Fight Mercury Pollution from Gold Mines Marcin Nowak/Wikimedia Fishing boats on the Madres de Dios River. Peru has declared a 60-day emergency in the Amazon due to widespread mercury pollution from the regions booming gold mining industry, the country's environment minister announced this week. Several studies have confirmed dangerously high levels of the neurotoxin in waterways, fish, and people living in the Madres de Dios region, near Peru's southeast border. Members of the Harakmbut indigenous...

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