According to a new study, small-scale gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon is contributing to the climate crisis.
The study developed a novel approach toward measuring carbon emissions through deforestation, drawing on Earth imagery from a network of nanosatellites.
In 2017, gold mining in one part of the Madre de Dios region emitted as much carbon as nearly 250,000 cars do in an average year.
The study’s authors say their new approach will help global efforts to monitor forest destruction and carbon emissions.
Gold mining in just 23,613 hectares (58,349 acres) of the Peruvian Amazon forest — an area about twice the size of
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