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Artificial lake expansion amplifies mercury pollution from gold mining

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the largest global source of anthropogenic mercury emissions. However, little is known about how effectively mercury released from ASGM is converted into the bioavailable form of methylmercury in ASGM-altered landscapes. Through examination of ASGM-imp...

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Autores principales: Gerson, Jacqueline R., Topp, Simon N., Vega, Claudia M., Gardner, John R., Yang, Xiao, Fernandez, Luis E., Bernhardt, Emily S., Pavelsky, Tamlin M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7695464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33246963
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd4953