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Gold Mining in the Amazon

How using mercury to mine gold is affecting the people and wildlife of the Amazon basin

How using mercury to mine gold is affecting the people and wildlife of the Amazon basin with guest Iain Thornton of Imperial College, London.

Also on the programme why water must be treated as a precious resource and how rocket fuel contributes to the hole on the ozone layer.

Presented by Andrew Dunn

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14 minutes

麻豆社 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project