by eduars | Sep 29, 2013 | Amazon Basin, Featured
A new study found unsafe amounts of mercury in fish and people in Puerto Maldonado, the capital of Peru’s southeastern Madre de Dios Region. Average mercury levels in nine of the 15 most commonly consumed fish species were above the limit recommended by the U.S....
by eduars | Sep 29, 2013 | Amazon Basin
A new study shows that mercury from wildcat gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon is accumulating in the bodies of miners and other people in Peru’s southeastern Madre de Dios region. The analysis of mercury in hair samples reinforces a study by Peruvian health...
by eduars | Sep 29, 2013 | Amazon Basin, Elsewhere in the World
Oil palm plantations in Kalimantan – the Indonesian name for the island known in English as Borneo – are expanding at the expense of forest, leading to an increase in carbon emissions, according to a study published October 7 in Nature Climate Change . The study found...
by eduars | Sep 29, 2013 | Amazon Basin
Several small studies have shown that some fish in the Madre de Dios region in southeastern Peru contain dangerous levels of mercury. A larger study of mercury in fish and in people will soon get under way under the direction of Luis Fernández, a tropical ecologist...
by eduars | Sep 29, 2013 | Amazon Basin
It’s been one dam story after another in South America in the past week or so. The 2,750 Mw HidroAysén dam in southern Chile got the green light from an appeals court after a three-month suspension to review objections from environmentalists. The...
