The Carnegie Airborne Observatory flies over the Madre de Dios region of Peru, where vast deforested and polluted areas result from gold mining. (Image credit: Carnegie Airborne Observatory)
Gold has long been synonymous with wealth and prosperity, but the shiny precious metal has taken on a far darker shade in Peru. Years of informal and illegal mining have wreaked havoc on the country's tropical rainforests, and according to a new study from the Carnegie Institution of Science and Peru's Ministry of the Environment, the situation is more dire than previously believed.
The research, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, puts the scale of Peru's artisanal mining industry in harsh new light. Combining...
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