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[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08052025/southern-arizona-sky-islands-mining-opposition/ by Wyatt Myskow, Yana Kunichoff 8/5/25 Inside Climate News] | [https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08052025/southern-arizona-sky-islands-mining-opposition/ by Wyatt Myskow, Yana Kunichoff 8/5/25 Inside Climate News] | ||
A rush of proposals to mine the state’s famed “sky islands” with water drawn from overtaxed aquifers is drawing opposition from people who know the industry’s boom and bust cycles. | A rush of proposals to mine the state’s famed “sky islands” with water drawn from overtaxed aquifers is drawing opposition from people who know the industry’s boom and bust cycles. | ||
=====Gold mining leaves heart of Peruvian Amazon a wasteland===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/gold-mining-leaves-heart-of-peruvian-amazon-a-wasteland by Leo Schwartz 21/9/19 PBS NEWS] | |||
A decade of illegal gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon has left thousands of acres of rainforest a wasteland. Unpermitted miners cleared vast sections of trees near Peru's border with Brazil and infused the land with mercury, causing an environmental disaster. But some miners have fled after Peruvian troops moved in. Special correspondent Leo Schwartz reports in the first of a two-part series. | |||
