Gold and mineral mining in and near rivers across the tropics is degrading waterways in 49 countries, according to a new study by a team of researchers including Wake Forest University biologists and computer scientists in its Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES). Published in Nature, the study presents a global picture of how sedimentation caused by mining is negatively impacting rivers from South America to central Africa to east Asia. The Wake Forest CEES team collaborated with lead author Evan Dethier, an Occidental College assistant professor, who worked on the study while he was a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth.

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