Nov 08 2018 Small-scale gold mining has destroyed more than 170000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon in the past five years according to a new analysis.
Nov 01 2013 Years of illegal gold mining in Peru have taken a serious toll on the Amazon rainforest. No one knew the full extent of the damage until a research team from
Nov 01 2013 Years of illegal gold mining in Peru have taken a serious toll on the Amazon rainforest. No one knew the full extent of the damage until a research team from
Jun 30 2020 Gold mining has rapidly increased across the wider Amazon region in recent years especially along the Guiana Shield where it is responsible
Aug 12 2020 Amazon gold mining drives malaria surges among Indigenous peoples. The troubling connection between deforestation mining and malaria is
Nov 09 2018 According to research released yesterday small-scale gold mining has led to the destruction of more than 170000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon over the past five years.
Nov 12 2018 More than 170000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon have been destroyed in the past 5 years due to small-scale gold mining.
Nov 09 2018 According to research released yesterday small-scale gold mining has led to the destruction of more than 170000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon over the past five years.
Nov 09 2018 According to research released yesterday small-scale gold mining has led to the destruction of more than 170000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon over the past five years.
Mar 08 2021 Gold Mining in the Amazon Rainforest. 1 of 3. The Peruvian Amazon is the worlds fourth largest tropical rainforest and an important biodiversity hotspot. But as usual people are putting .
Nov 08 2018 Small-scale gold mining has destroyed more than 170000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon in the past five years according to a new analysis by scientists at Wake Forest .
Jun 29 2020 The effects of gold mining on forest health are long lasting. According to new research gold mining stunts the regrowth of Amazon forests limiting their ability to store carbon.
Jun 29 2020 Gold mining has rapidly increased across the Amazon in recent years especially along the Guiana Shield where it is responsible for as much as 90 of total deforestation.
Dec 08 2020 Deforestation has wiped out 8 of the Amazon rainforest in just 18 years according to a study released Tuesday. The swath of land destroyed between 2000 and 2018 is
Sep 10 2014 Illegal gold mining is by no means a new phenomenon but it has been getting more and more attention with golds decade-long bull run. In the past the focus on illegal gold mining
Jun 14 2021 An Yanomami man stands near an illegal gold mine during Brazils environmental agency operation against illegal gold mining on indigenous land in the heart of the Amazon rainforest
Sep 21 2019 In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon lies a man-made desert. It was once pristine rainforest but a decade of illegal gold mining has transformed it
There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200000. In Brazil alone European colonists have destroyed more than 90 indigenous tribes since the 1900s.
Nov 24 2018 Amazon rainforest deforestation worst in 10 years says Brazil. Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has hit its highest rate in a decade according to official data. About 7900 sq .
Save 84 off the newsstand price Its a few hours before dawn in the Peruvian rainforest and five bare light bulbs hang from a wire above a 40-foot-deep pit. Gold miners operating illegally .
Feb 11 2020 Up to one fifth of the Amazon rainforest is emitting more CO2 than it absorbs new research suggests. Results from a decade-long study of greenhouse gases over the Amazon basin appear to show .
Jun 22 2021 The rainforests first major fire of 2021 occurred more than a week earlier than last year according to Matt Finer a senior research specialist at the non-profit Amazon Conservation who leads .
Oct 12 2020 A pandemic-created gold rush in the Amazon is destroying Indigenous lands. COVID-19 chaos boosted gold prices which intensified mining on Amazons Indigenous lands.
Nov 04 2019 In the past few years hundreds of thousands of acres of the Kayapo reserve have been destroyed or degraded by illegal mining and logging. The
