Leaching gold with cassava: An option to eliminate mercury use in artisanal gold mining.
| Journal of Cleaner Production | Volume 311, 15 August 2021, 127531 | | P. Torkamana, M. M. Veiga, L. R. P. de Andrade Lima, L .A....
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- Jun 16, 2021
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30 Years of the GEF
Thirty years ago, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established to tackle the world’s most challenging environmental issues. With...
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- Jun 12, 2021
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Trillion Trees: Amazon Bioeconomy Challenge
This Challenge calls for innovative bioeconomy projects in the Amazon Forest that protect and restore biodiversity and ecosystem...
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- Feb 10, 2021
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ECUADOR TAILINGS DISCHARGE POLLUTES THE CALERA RIVER WATERS - IN PERU THE CONSEQUENCES ARE SUFFERING
#Ecuador Contamination #InPerspective. For decades the waters of the Calera River and the Yellow River have been contaminated due to the...
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- Feb 10, 2021
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Portovelo-Zaruma Artisanal Mining: Poverty Driven Destruction
An overview of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) practices used in Portovelo, Ecuador. The short film shows how miners...
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- Feb 10, 2021
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Air pollution kills 600,000 children each year according to the WHO.
Exposure to toxic air both indoors and out kills some 600,000 children under the age of 15 each year, the World Health Organization...
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- Feb 10, 2021
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Air pollution’s devastating impact on children’s health
Every day around a staggering 93% of the world’s children under the age of 15 years breathes air that is so polluted it puts their health...
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- Feb 10, 2021
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Toxic air will shorten children's lives by 20 months, study reveals.
The life expectancy of children born today will be shortened by 20 months on average by breathing the toxic air that is widespread across...
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- Feb 9, 2021
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Portovelo-Zaruma Artisanal Miners March for Better Working Conditions
Alchemy Mining Group, Inc. (“AMGI”) an Innovation Provider to #MakeMercuryHistory in ASG miner's gold ore processing. "Profit proudly...
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- Jan 23, 2021
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Microplastics Found in Placentas of Pregnant Women
New research published in the journal Environment International found evidence of microplastics in the human placenta. Researchers called...
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- Jan 15, 2021
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Special Report: Sleeping Beauty - How suspect gold reached top brands
LA RINCONADA, Peru (Reuters) - From the Andes mountains, thousands of artisanal gold-diggers for years sent fragments of metal to a Swiss...
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- Jan 15, 2021
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Trading mercury
In 2012, the global trade in mercury reached a peak of US$210 million. Four thousand and forty tonnes of the element—used in everything...
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- Jan 15, 2021
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Air pollution can reach the placenta around a developing baby
A study of women in Belgium found black carbon particles, or soot, within the organ. Breathing in polluted air may send soot far beyond a...
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- Jan 7, 2021
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Mercury has an atmospheric lifetime of around a year University of Oxford earth scientists report
| University of Oxford | Influencing global policy on mercury University of Oxford earth scientists with diverse expertise have combined...
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