chronic mercury epidemic in Peru

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Fish from the River Madre de Dios in Peru. Fish consumption is considered one of the two main ways mercury contamination has spread among local inhabitants - including those living upriver from gold-mining. Photograph: Cris Bouroncle/AFP/Getty Images Madre de Dios

Leaked map reveals chronic mercury epidemic in Peru

21 Nov 2016 - 00:10

Gold-rush in the 8.5m hectare Madre de Dios region began in the 1980s and, by 2012, miners had destroyed more than 50,000 hectares of forest, dumping 100s of tons of mercury