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For a cleaner Chesapeake Bay, start with the maintenance crew | Pollution & Solutions
It all begins with a single, innocuous raindrop. Instead of splattering onto soil and oozing into the ground, as it would have done a half-millennium ago, the droplet lands on a roof, road or parking lot. From there, it zips along one hard surface to another. Until this tiny traveler finds a larger body of water — a ditch, a creek, the Potomac River — it is fair game for any pollutant that wants to tag along. Landscape architect Kelley Oklesson, kneeling, confers with (standing, left to right) Maureen Robinson of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers, neighborhood activist and gardener Jean Lee Cole and landscape architect Maya Mule during…
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Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining
1. NRDC. Artisanal Gold: Opportunities for responsible investment-Summary. Investing in Artisanal Gold Summary v8 https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/investing-artisanal-gold-summary.pdf (2016). 2. Asner, G. P. & Tupayachi, R. Accelerated losses of protected forests from gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Environ. Res. Lett. 12, 9 (2017). 3. Espejo, J. C. et al. Deforestation and forest degradation due to gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: A 34-year perspective. Remote Sens. 10, 1–17 (2018). Google Scholar 4. Gerson, J. R. et al. Artificial lake expansion amplifies mercury pollution from gold mining. Sci. Adv. 6, eabd4953 (2020). ADS CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar 5. Dethier, E. N., Sartain, S. L. & Lutz, D. A. Heightened levels and…
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