Category: Mining Pollution

Every single category except for urban environments has deteriorated since the last report in 2016, including inland water, coasts, air quality, and extreme events, with climate change, mining, pollution, invasive species and habitat loss all major contributors. – Click to read more

Other factors, such as mining pollution, marsh draining, and climate-induced damage, have also taken their toll on the site, but the actions of right-wing members of the regional parliament, who had pushed through legislation allowing the… – Click to read more

Doñana’s water resources, which cover over 130,000 hectares (320,000 acres) of marshes, woodlands, and dunes in the Andalucian provinces of Huelva, Seville, and Cádiz, have significantly decreased over the past 30 years as a result of climate change, farming, mining pollution, and marsh drainage. – Click to read more

Outside the wastewater treatment plant in the Iron Range town of Aurora, a small trailer could hold clues to solving a big environmental problem facing northern Minnesota — how to protect wild rice from sulfate, a pollutant released by iron ore mines, wastewater treatment plants, and other industries. – Click to read more