Peruvian gold rush turns pristine rainforests into heavily polluted mercury sinks

If you had to guess which part of the world has the highest levels of atmospheric mercury pollution, you probably wouldn’t pick a patch of pristine Amazonian rainforest. Yet, that’s exactly where they are.


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Source: Phys.org