Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Satellite imagery reveals how gold mining is destroying tropical forests



The picture above is terrible. It shows the catastrophic effects of the deforestation caused by the current gold rush in the tropical forests of South America. The consumption of gold worldwide is increasing in the last years due to the global economic crisis and the instability in the financial markets.


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