Mercury, a tenaciously persistent element, doesn’t just go away. In towns along the Madre de Dios River in Peru, David Gonzalez is studying how gold mining puts public health at risk.
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Night Swimming in the Amazon
“The Peruvian Amazon never fails to impose quandaries.”
Conservation scientist Sarah Federman describes one night’s mishap near a far-flung research station in the isolated Peruvian Amazon.