our mobile phones and some environmental issues

You may have got a new iphone from Santa but what is going to happen to your old one? Here is some insight. One tonne of iPhones would deliver 300 times more gold than a tonne of gold ore and 6.5 ti…

Mercury, Gold and the food chain

Illegal gold mining has transformed forested land into sand and ponds. Credit: Brett Gundlock for Nature   In Latin America, especially in Peru, they are thousands of illegal gold miners who use…