Mining activity causing nearly 10 percent of Amazon deforestation

Mongabay
Nov 2, 2017, 12:53 pm87 pts
An industrial mining operation in Brazil. Note the forest at the edge of the open pit mine. Photo credit: Norsk Hydro ASA via VisualHunt.com / CC BY-NC-SA Nearly ten percent of all the deforestation occurring in the Brazilian Amazon between 2005 and 2015 came from mining activities, say researchers in a new…

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