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Heavy metal contaminants from mining can live in ecosystems for centuries. A new global database shows where the problem is worst.

A groundbreaking study has provided pivotal new insights into the extensive impact of metal mining contamination on rivers and floodplains across the world. The new research, by an international team of researchers including Professor Karen Hudson-Ed

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An estimated 23 million people around the world live on flood-plains contaminated by potentially harmful concentrations of toxic waste from metal-mining activity, according to a study. The research, published recently in the journal Science, provides new insights into the extensive impact of metal mining contamination on rivers and floodplains across the world.

A new study from the University of Lincoln has found that 23 million people globally are affected by contaminated rivers and floodplains.

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A study, published in Science, has provided new insights into the extensive impact of metal mining contamination on rivers and floodplains across the world, with an estimated 23 million people believed to be affected by potentially dangerous concentrations of toxic waste.

Toxic byproducts of metals mining pollute over 297,800 miles of river systems, researchers found. They also estimate the pollution impacts 5.72 million livestock globally

They live on flood-plains contaminated by potentially harmful levels of toxic waste, research reveals.

A groundbreaking study, led by Professors Mark Macklin and Chris Thomas, Directors of the Lincoln Centre for Water and Planetary Health at the University of Lincoln, UK, has provided new insights into the extensive impact of metal mining contamination on rivers and floodplains across the world, with an estimated 23 million people believed to be affected by potentially dangerous concentrations of toxic waste. The study used a new georeferenced global database of 185,000 metal mines compiled by th...