Satellite images show the widespread impact of mining on tropical rivers

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Satellite images show the widespread impact of mining on tropical rivers
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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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