Sri Lanka's best cultural experiences - Planning a trip to the tropical island country of the moment? Beverley Watts has your ...

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest. “We could potentially see whether mining is starting to ...

Small-scale operations set up primarily illicitly and operated in the shadows use mercury, a substance with neurotoxic properties, for gold extraction. Now, a team of researchers examined if trees ...

“We show[ed] that Ficus insipda tree cores can be used as a biomonitor for characterizing the spatial and potentially the temporal footprint of mercury emissions from artisanal gold mining in ...

where the Guarani people have cultivated the tree that produces the leaves for centuries, including in Paso Yobai. But when an Ecuadoran miner discovered gold nuggets in a stream there in the ...

New research has found that some tropical trees in the Peruvian Amazon can be used to monitor mercury pollution from gold mining, offering an alternative to expensive air monitors. Previous ...

Gen. He Weidong was recently absent from a decades-old military springtime ceremony, fueling speculation he may have become the latest - and most senior - casualty in Xi Jinping's purge of the top ...

The Chinese military officials in brown uniforms fan out around rows of young trees, shoveling soil into ... The discipline, known as “tea-leaf reading,” has become more relevant than ever ...

Today, the precious metal is just as sought after, but the remaining tiny gold particles are much harder to find. Mining often happens in artisanal and small-scale mining operations that release ...