South Africa is moving to regulate groundwater more tightly as demand and climate pressures grow, but the draft rules still fall short in important ways.
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Locals from Asunción Mita, Guatemala recently voted against the development of mining activities in their municipality, in a referendum contested by a Canadian mining company that owns a gold mine.
Plants have evolved several ways to deal with heavy metals that might otherwise poison or kill them.
New research points to ‘heavy metals’ having unseen effects on a much larger scale than previously thought.
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