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Public health
fromPoynter
1 week ago

What 20 years with local reporters taught us about impact in international journalism - Poynter

Investigative reporting exposed mercury use by Zimbabwean miners and other abuses, prompting public pressure and government action that produced measurable policy and social change.
World news
fromPrx
3 weeks ago

The World

Saudi crown prince met President Trump; Peru seeks to curb mercury in small-scale gold mining; UK uses AI to fast-track antibiotics; Winter Olympics entry questioned.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon

An illegal gold rush has cleared 140,000 hectares of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon and is accelerating as foreign, armed groups move into the region to profit from record gold prices, according to a report. About 540 square miles of land have been cleared for mining in the South American country since 1984, and the environmental destruction is spreading rapidly across the country, Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) and its Peruvian partner organisation, Conservacion Amazonica, found.
Environment
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