Increased sediment concentrations in rivers linked to mining.
report that some 35,000 kilometres of large tropical rivers have been severely affected by sediment from river-mining activities .
An estimated 24,000 kilometres of smaller rivers are also affected, bringing the length of mining-affected water courses to a total that would stretch almost one and a half times around the Equator.
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