Red floods near giant Indonesia nickel mine blight farms and fishing grounds

Mongabay
Jun 14, 2023, 5:29 am156 pts
KOLAKA, Indonesia — Ansal grabbed a makeshift raincoat, an empty rice sack, and ran home as the rain began to pound the fields of Pomalaa. A few hours later, after the rain stopped, the 49-year-old returned to his fields. “Everything is red,” Ansal told Mongabay Indonesia, here in Kolaka district in the…

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