Amazon gold mining drives malaria surges among Indigenous peoples
The troubling connection between deforestation, mining, and malaria is poised to create especially bad outbreaks in 2020. SÃO PAULO, BrazilThe mosquitoes come in swarms not long after the forest burns. As they scorch one patch of trees after another, the miners carve deep pits into the cleared land …
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