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Slitherine übernimmt die BLOOD BOWL-Videospiellizenz von NACON
Slitherine, seit Jahren spezialisiert auf Strategie- und Taktikspiele, hat sich die Lizenz- und Publishing-Rechte an der BLOOD BOWL-Videospielreihe gesichert
https://phantanews.de/wp/2026/07/slitherine-uebernimmt-die-blood-bowl-videospiellizenz-von-nacon/
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Slitherine übernimmt die BLOOD BOWL-Videospiellizenz von NACON
Slitherine, seit Jahren spezialisiert auf Strategie- und Taktikspiele, hat sich die Lizenz- und Publishing-Rechte an der BLOOD BOWL-Videospielreihe gesichert
https://phantanews.de/wp/2026/07/slitherine-uebernimmt-die-blood-bowl-videospiellizenz-von-nacon/
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Slitherine übernimmt die BLOOD BOWL-Videospiellizenz von NACON
Slitherine, seit Jahren spezialisiert auf Strategie- und Taktikspiele, hat sich die Lizenz- und Publishing-Rechte an der BLOOD BOWL-Videospielreihe gesichert
https://phantanews.de/wp/2026/07/slitherine-uebernimmt-die-blood-bowl-videospiellizenz-von-nacon/
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Slitherine übernimmt die BLOOD BOWL-Videospiellizenz von NACON
Slitherine, seit Jahren spezialisiert auf Strategie- und Taktikspiele, hat sich die Lizenz- und Publishing-Rechte an der BLOOD BOWL-Videospielreihe gesichert
https://phantanews.de/wp/2026/07/slitherine-uebernimmt-die-blood-bowl-videospiellizenz-von-nacon/
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Slitherine Acquires Blood Bowl Video Game Licence From Struggling Nacon
Slitherine, the strategy specialist behind games like Panzer Corps 2 and Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector, has announced that it has acquired the Blood Bowl video game licence, publishing rights and back catalogue from Nacon.
In case you need a reminder, Nacon is currently facing major problems. Nacon’s troubles began upstream at parent company Bigben Interactive, which failed to make a €43 million bond repayment after its banks refused refinancing. That liquidity crunch ultimately pushed Nacon into insolvency proceedings.
AdvertisementsUnfortunately, Spiders was liquidated in April following the release of Greedfall 2.
Which brings us to Slitherine, who has managed to reach a deal with Nacon (and therefore presumably Games Workshop, the ultimate owners of Warhammer) to acquire the Blood Bowl game license, publishing rights and back catalogue.
“Blood Bowl is one of the most iconic and distinctive strategy franchises in videogames, and we’re genuinely honoured to help shape its future alongside Cyanide and Warhammer,” said Marco Minoli, Director of Publishing at Slitherine.
Speaking to GameIndustry.biz, Minoli clarified that they are not taking any sort of stake in Cyanide: “We aren’t taking an ownership stake in Cyanide, but we are securing a long term development deal with them. Our singular goal is to guarantee the absolute, long-term continuity of development for the game.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgovHpDB2dU
Advertisements“From day one, our visions for the future of Blood Bowl were perfectly aligned. We backed that up with a highly competitive commercial proposition that met their financial objectives,” Minoli told GameIndustry.biz. “There were certainly other players at the table, but we were focused entirely on our own pitch, and we’re thrilled that our shared vision won out.”
In short, Cyanide will continue to develop the upcoming Blood Bowl game. Titled Warhammer Blood Bowl, it was announced by Nacon and Cyanide earlier this year as a new adaptation based on the latest tabletop rules. It is due digitally on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC, with existing Blood Bowl 3 owners getting it for free.
The new deal means Slitherine will act as publisher instead of Nacon. There’s no word on what the future might entail should Cyanide also go under, or whether Slitherine would continue to allow Cyanide to develop future Blood Bowl games.
Speculatively, this could even be the first step toward a potential acquisition should Nacon decide to sell Cyanide in a bid to save itself. It would certainly fit in with Slitherine’s recent expansion drive. In 2024, the strategy publisher acquired Battlefront, the studio behind the long-running Combat Mission series, describing the move as part of its commitment to expanding the wargaming market in a sustainable way. Since then, the company has continued to grow its catalogue and profile, making Blood Bowl another notable addition to its strategy-heavy stable.
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/549201/ Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Formed Up To 12 Billion Years Ago, New Observations Suggest #3IATLAS #Carbon #Carbon12 #Carbon13 #comet #CosmicNoon #CSA #Cyanide #Deuterium #EarlyMilkyWay #EarlyUniverse #Éire #esa #ESO #HeavyWater #Ice #IE #InterstellarComet #InterstellarObject #IR #Ireland #Isotope #MilkyWay #nasa #nitrogen #Science #SolarSystem #universe #UVES #VLT #Water #Webb
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: #Humans learned which #plants are safe through centuries of observation and #Indigenous food-processing methods (like soaking cassava to remove #cyanide). 🌿
Today, #food scientists explain #toxicology, preparation techniques, and even low-toxin plant breeding at #CQUniversity #Australia. 🧪
👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/how-humans-learned-which-plants-safe-to-eat/
#science #potatoes #beans #aboriginal #chemistry #botany #nutrition #health
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: #Humans learned which #plants are safe through centuries of observation and #Indigenous food-processing methods (like soaking cassava to remove #cyanide). 🌿
Today, #food scientists explain #toxicology, preparation techniques, and even low-toxin plant breeding at #CQUniversity #Australia. 🧪
👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/how-humans-learned-which-plants-safe-to-eat/
#science #potatoes #beans #aboriginal #chemistry #botany #nutrition #health
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: #Humans learned which #plants are safe through centuries of observation and #Indigenous food-processing methods (like soaking cassava to remove #cyanide). 🌿
Today, #food scientists explain #toxicology, preparation techniques, and even low-toxin plant breeding at #CQUniversity #Australia. 🧪
👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/how-humans-learned-which-plants-safe-to-eat/
#science #potatoes #beans #aboriginal #chemistry #botany #nutrition #health
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: #Humans learned which #plants are safe through centuries of observation and #Indigenous food-processing methods (like soaking cassava to remove #cyanide). 🌿
Today, #food scientists explain #toxicology, preparation techniques, and even low-toxin plant breeding at #CQUniversity #Australia. 🧪
👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/how-humans-learned-which-plants-safe-to-eat/
#science #potatoes #beans #aboriginal #chemistry #botany #nutrition #health
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: #Humans learned which #plants are safe through centuries of observation and #Indigenous food-processing methods (like soaking cassava to remove #cyanide). 🌿
Today, #food scientists explain #toxicology, preparation techniques, and even low-toxin plant breeding at #CQUniversity #Australia. 🧪
👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/how-humans-learned-which-plants-safe-to-eat/
#science #potatoes #beans #aboriginal #chemistry #botany #nutrition #health
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So, I had planned a day where I was just making creole gumbo. And then I made the mistake of opening my news app, and now…ya know, Jeezy creezy, why does the #GOP have to speedrun the death of all things?
#Cyanide bombs, or #M44, are mechanical devices previously used primarily for predator control. They are designed to eject sodium cyanide when triggered by an animal. The Biden administration banned them on public land after a kid and his dog triggered one, killing the dog instantly. The kid survived, but not without a lot of intervention.
See, the thing is, dogs can’t read. Frankly, I’m not many people can. A spring loaded trap that shoots out a radius of cyanide into the environment seems like a bad idea. A much worse idea than learning to live with coyotes. #Coyotes are just little dudes, ya know?
Apex predators are a necessary part of the cycle. The GOP on the other hand, I think we can live without.
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So, I had planned a day where I was just making creole gumbo. And then I made the mistake of opening my news app, and now…ya know, Jeezy creezy, why does the #GOP have to speedrun the death of all things?
#Cyanide bombs, or #M44, are mechanical devices previously used primarily for predator control. They are designed to eject sodium cyanide when triggered by an animal. The Biden administration banned them on public land after a kid and his dog triggered one, killing the dog instantly. The kid survived, but not without a lot of intervention.
See, the thing is, dogs can’t read. Frankly, I’m not many people can. A spring loaded trap that shoots out a radius of cyanide into the environment seems like a bad idea. A much worse idea than learning to live with coyotes. #Coyotes are just little dudes, ya know?
Apex predators are a necessary part of the cycle. The GOP on the other hand, I think we can live without.
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So, I had planned a day where I was just making creole gumbo. And then I made the mistake of opening my news app, and now…ya know, Jeezy creezy, why does the #GOP have to speedrun the death of all things?
#Cyanide bombs, or #M44, are mechanical devices previously used primarily for predator control. They are designed to eject sodium cyanide when triggered by an animal. The Biden administration banned them on public land after a kid and his dog triggered one, killing the dog instantly. The kid survived, but not without a lot of intervention.
See, the thing is, dogs can’t read. Frankly, I’m not many people can. A spring loaded trap that shoots out a radius of cyanide into the environment seems like a bad idea. A much worse idea than learning to live with coyotes. #Coyotes are just little dudes, ya know?
Apex predators are a necessary part of the cycle. The GOP on the other hand, I think we can live without.
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So, I had planned a day where I was just making creole gumbo. And then I made the mistake of opening my news app, and now…ya know, Jeezy creezy, why does the #GOP have to speedrun the death of all things?
#Cyanide bombs, or #M44, are mechanical devices previously used primarily for predator control. They are designed to eject sodium cyanide when triggered by an animal. The Biden administration banned them on public land after a kid and his dog triggered one, killing the dog instantly. The kid survived, but not without a lot of intervention.
See, the thing is, dogs can’t read. Frankly, I’m not many people can. A spring loaded trap that shoots out a radius of cyanide into the environment seems like a bad idea. A much worse idea than learning to live with coyotes. #Coyotes are just little dudes, ya know?
Apex predators are a necessary part of the cycle. The GOP on the other hand, I think we can live without.
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So, I had planned a day where I was just making creole gumbo. And then I made the mistake of opening my news app, and now…ya know, Jeezy creezy, why does the #GOP have to speedrun the death of all things?
#Cyanide bombs, or #M44, are mechanical devices previously used primarily for predator control. They are designed to eject sodium cyanide when triggered by an animal. The Biden administration banned them on public land after a kid and his dog triggered one, killing the dog instantly. The kid survived, but not without a lot of intervention.
See, the thing is, dogs can’t read. Frankly, I’m not many people can. A spring loaded trap that shoots out a radius of cyanide into the environment seems like a bad idea. A much worse idea than learning to live with coyotes. #Coyotes are just little dudes, ya know?
Apex predators are a necessary part of the cycle. The GOP on the other hand, I think we can live without.
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Public cautioned over stolen cassava containing cyanide
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Public cautioned over stolen cassava containing cyanide
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Manila Cites Cyanide Discovery Near Disputed Atoll, Cries 'Sabotage'
Philippine officials found cyanide on Chinese vessels near Second Thomas Shoal. This discovery raises fears of reef sabotage and environmental damage.
#SouthChinaSea #SecondThomasShoal #Cyanide #MaritimeDispute #Philippines
https://newsletter.tf/manila-cyanide-discovery-chinese-vessels-second-thomas-shoal/
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Cyanide was found on Chinese boats near the Second Thomas Shoal, a serious environmental threat that Manila believes could be sabotage.
#SouthChinaSea #SecondThomasShoal #Cyanide #MaritimeDispute #Philippines
https://newsletter.tf/manila-cyanide-discovery-chinese-vessels-second-thomas-shoal/ -
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/293412/ 3I/ATLAS Shows Signs of Full Cometary Awakening after Perihelion ##Perihelion #3IATLAS #CarbonDioxide #CarbonMonoxide #comet #Cyanide #Éire #Ice #IE #InterstellarComet #InterstellarObject #Ireland #nasa #OrganicMatter #Science #SolarSystem #SPHEREx #Water
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Twenty Times A Pill!!!
#thedarkknaik #cyanidemohan #dahaad #bhagwatchapteronerakshas #cyanide #serialkiller #loveisblind
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Molecular precursors to #life discovered in the Perseus Cloud.
#prebiotic #cyanide #acetylene #benzene #astrobiology #originsoflife
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-molecular-precursors-life-perseus-cloud.html
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[video] #Quechan Elder Urges Solidarity in Face of #Mining Efforts
#SMPGold’s #OroCruz Project Threatens #SacredLands, #PrestonArrowWeed Says
by Juan Valencia on October 9, 2023
"IMPERIAL COUNTY — Imagine Jerusalem burning. Imagine Mecca, Bethlehem — any of these cities important to the history and faith of their respective religions — being destroyed, disrespectfully invaded, and irrevocably altered for the sake of exploration, extraction, and #mining.
T"hough these are far-fetched and horrific developments to the imagination, 83-year-old Preston Arrow-Weed — the Quechan tribal elder, cultural bearer, singer of the old songs, as well as author, actor and playwright — today paints a similarly bleak picture regarding the threats being made to his holy place of worship.
"This place is located here in the desert outskirts of #ImperialCounty and in the neighboring #YumaCounty.
"Southern Empire Resources Corp. (SMP Gold) is a company based out of British Columbia, Canada, which for years now has been attempting to mine for gold within these Imperial County areas, specifically the #CargoMuchacho and #IndianPass regions, in a project of mineral exploration for the purposes of extracting gold that they are calling the Oro Cruz Project.
"'We firmly believe that Oro Cruz has exploration potential for more than a million ounces,' states SMP Gold’s project mission on its website. 'We’ll explore the property using modern geological theory and high tech methods of exploration, and see what we can do.'
"For millennia, the Indian Pass area in eastern Imperial County, where SMP Gold plans to drill and disturb the habitat, has held religious and historical significance for the Quechan Tribe. The area contains sleeping circles, #geoglyphs and pottery shards left behind by the tribe’s ancestors, to name some #artifacts."
Read more:
https://calexicochronicle.com/2023/10/09/quechan-elder-urges-solidarity-in-face-of-mining-efforts/Video:
https://youtu.be/rOIEx1pmVEI?si=9R6b8QULnuJIZHQW#California #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #CulturalGenocide #IndigenousNews #NoConsent #GoldMine #GoldMining #MercuryPollution #Cyanide
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[video] #Quechan Elder Urges Solidarity in Face of #Mining Efforts
#SMPGold’s #OroCruz Project Threatens #SacredLands, #PrestonArrowWeed Says
by Juan Valencia on October 9, 2023
"IMPERIAL COUNTY — Imagine Jerusalem burning. Imagine Mecca, Bethlehem — any of these cities important to the history and faith of their respective religions — being destroyed, disrespectfully invaded, and irrevocably altered for the sake of exploration, extraction, and #mining.
T"hough these are far-fetched and horrific developments to the imagination, 83-year-old Preston Arrow-Weed — the Quechan tribal elder, cultural bearer, singer of the old songs, as well as author, actor and playwright — today paints a similarly bleak picture regarding the threats being made to his holy place of worship.
"This place is located here in the desert outskirts of #ImperialCounty and in the neighboring #YumaCounty.
"Southern Empire Resources Corp. (SMP Gold) is a company based out of British Columbia, Canada, which for years now has been attempting to mine for gold within these Imperial County areas, specifically the #CargoMuchacho and #IndianPass regions, in a project of mineral exploration for the purposes of extracting gold that they are calling the Oro Cruz Project.
"'We firmly believe that Oro Cruz has exploration potential for more than a million ounces,' states SMP Gold’s project mission on its website. 'We’ll explore the property using modern geological theory and high tech methods of exploration, and see what we can do.'
"For millennia, the Indian Pass area in eastern Imperial County, where SMP Gold plans to drill and disturb the habitat, has held religious and historical significance for the Quechan Tribe. The area contains sleeping circles, #geoglyphs and pottery shards left behind by the tribe’s ancestors, to name some #artifacts."
Read more:
https://calexicochronicle.com/2023/10/09/quechan-elder-urges-solidarity-in-face-of-mining-efforts/Video:
https://youtu.be/rOIEx1pmVEI?si=9R6b8QULnuJIZHQW#California #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #CulturalGenocide #IndigenousNews #NoConsent #GoldMine #GoldMining #MercuryPollution #Cyanide
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Bei den Brandstiftungen von Essen gab es 31 Verletzte - viele erlitten Rauchgasvergiftungen. Was genau versteht man darunter?#Essen #Brandstiftung #Verletzte #Rauchgasvergiftung #Vorbeugung #Behandlung #Kohlenmonoxid #Cyanide #Spätfolgen #SevenDreyer
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Dedi Supriadi swings his hoe into the soil at his aubergine and cucumber farm – land where he once dug for gold in the hamlet of #CitorekKidul in #Indonesia.
The mountainous region is scarred by illegal #GoldMining , where workers carve deep into hillsides and caves and risk their lives in the process.
Tempted by the traces of #gold left behind by a former state-run mine, Aneka Tambang #ANTAM , villagers have turned to small-scale #IllegalMining , driving #deforestation and using #toxic chemicals like #mercury and #cyanide that #pollute water and kill #wildlife.
Critics and $environmentalists have called for stricter measures to stop the practice and encourage a return to traditional and less destructive ways of life like #farming.
A police crackdown and signs of change, such as several #miners recently switching to farming, have raised hopes of a possible turning point in the effort.
https://www.eco-business.com/news/from-indonesias-poisoned-gold-tunnels-miners-look-to-farming
#AsianMastodon #TootSEA #SouthEastAsia #EcoNews #ecological #environmental
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Dedi Supriadi swings his hoe into the soil at his aubergine and cucumber farm – land where he once dug for gold in the hamlet of #CitorekKidul in #Indonesia.
The mountainous region is scarred by illegal #GoldMining , where workers carve deep into hillsides and caves and risk their lives in the process.
Tempted by the traces of #gold left behind by a former state-run mine, Aneka Tambang #ANTAM , villagers have turned to small-scale #IllegalMining , driving #deforestation and using #toxic chemicals like #mercury and #cyanide that #pollute water and kill #wildlife.
Critics and $environmentalists have called for stricter measures to stop the practice and encourage a return to traditional and less destructive ways of life like #farming.
A police crackdown and signs of change, such as several #miners recently switching to farming, have raised hopes of a possible turning point in the effort.
https://www.eco-business.com/news/from-indonesias-poisoned-gold-tunnels-miners-look-to-farming
#AsianMastodon #TootSEA #SouthEastAsia #EcoNews #ecological #environmental
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#AmazonForests poisoned by #mercury from #GoldMining
Study finds unprecedented levels of #MercuryPollution
January 28, 2022
by Cheryl Walker"Wake Forest faculty in the University’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and its Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered that gold mining in the Amazon rainforest is causing exceptionally high levels of mercury pollution in the old-growth rainforest near the mining sites.
"The total mercury concentrations in a forested area in #Peru’s #LosAmigosConservationConcession were the highest ever recorded.
"The study, 'Amazon Forests Capture High Levels of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution From #ArtisanalGoldMining,' appears Jan. 28 in the journal Nature Communications. The research team was led by Jacqueline R. Gerson, as a Ph.D. student at Duke University.
“What this study found was that the wildest forests left on earth are capturing mercury released by artisanal mining, and at superfund-site levels,” said Miles Silman, Andrew Sabin Presidential Chair of Conservation Biology and Director of Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. 'The wildlife and humans that live within these wild forests are poisoned as well, with effects that we are just beginning to understand.'
"''This study reveals, for the first time, the mechanism of how mercury released into the air by gold mining contaminates #TropicalForests and forest #soils,' Fernandez said. “This atmospheric mercury, which is either deposited on to leaves or absorbed by leaves, eventually falls to the ground and gets incorporated into forest soils.'
"The region of #MadreDeDios is considered a global #biodiversity hotspot, but in recent decades has suffered an unprecedented #GoldRush. mining is doing irreversible damage to one of the world’s largest remaining pieces of #TropicalRainforest and threatening its survival. In the Madre de Dios region of Peru, east of the Andes Mountains, nearly 250,000 acres of rainforest, roughly the size of Dallas, Texas, have been razed and transformed into somewhere that looks like a desert pockmarked by tens of thousands of mercury contaminated mining ponds by illegal #GoldMining.
"Gold miners use toxic mercury to pull flakes of gold out of the river sediment. Then, they separate the gold from the mercury using open fire ovens. The heat melts the gold and turns the mercury to a toxic vapor.
"'People had a lot of ideas about where mercury might be going in these tropical landscapes, and they turned out to be wrong,' Silman said. 'The paper shows that mercury isn’t staying in the mining zone, but rather that trees are scrubbing mercury from the air and transferring it into forest #ecosystems, and into forest wildlife and peoples, where it moves up the food chain with unknown effects.'
"The study also reveals how these contaminated soils serve as a repository for this deposited mercury, preventing. or at least slowing, its transfer into rivers and lakes where it is transformed into a more toxic form of mercury, #Methylmercury, and contaminate aquatic food webs."
https://news.wfu.edu/2022/01/28/amazon-forests-poisoned-by-mercury-from-gold-mining/
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#AmazonForests poisoned by #mercury from #GoldMining
Study finds unprecedented levels of #MercuryPollution
January 28, 2022
by Cheryl Walker"Wake Forest faculty in the University’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and its Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered that gold mining in the Amazon rainforest is causing exceptionally high levels of mercury pollution in the old-growth rainforest near the mining sites.
"The total mercury concentrations in a forested area in #Peru’s #LosAmigosConservationConcession were the highest ever recorded.
"The study, 'Amazon Forests Capture High Levels of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution From #ArtisanalGoldMining,' appears Jan. 28 in the journal Nature Communications. The research team was led by Jacqueline R. Gerson, as a Ph.D. student at Duke University.
“What this study found was that the wildest forests left on earth are capturing mercury released by artisanal mining, and at superfund-site levels,” said Miles Silman, Andrew Sabin Presidential Chair of Conservation Biology and Director of Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. 'The wildlife and humans that live within these wild forests are poisoned as well, with effects that we are just beginning to understand.'
"''This study reveals, for the first time, the mechanism of how mercury released into the air by gold mining contaminates #TropicalForests and forest #soils,' Fernandez said. “This atmospheric mercury, which is either deposited on to leaves or absorbed by leaves, eventually falls to the ground and gets incorporated into forest soils.'
"The region of #MadreDeDios is considered a global #biodiversity hotspot, but in recent decades has suffered an unprecedented #GoldRush. mining is doing irreversible damage to one of the world’s largest remaining pieces of #TropicalRainforest and threatening its survival. In the Madre de Dios region of Peru, east of the Andes Mountains, nearly 250,000 acres of rainforest, roughly the size of Dallas, Texas, have been razed and transformed into somewhere that looks like a desert pockmarked by tens of thousands of mercury contaminated mining ponds by illegal #GoldMining.
"Gold miners use toxic mercury to pull flakes of gold out of the river sediment. Then, they separate the gold from the mercury using open fire ovens. The heat melts the gold and turns the mercury to a toxic vapor.
"'People had a lot of ideas about where mercury might be going in these tropical landscapes, and they turned out to be wrong,' Silman said. 'The paper shows that mercury isn’t staying in the mining zone, but rather that trees are scrubbing mercury from the air and transferring it into forest #ecosystems, and into forest wildlife and peoples, where it moves up the food chain with unknown effects.'
"The study also reveals how these contaminated soils serve as a repository for this deposited mercury, preventing. or at least slowing, its transfer into rivers and lakes where it is transformed into a more toxic form of mercury, #Methylmercury, and contaminate aquatic food webs."
https://news.wfu.edu/2022/01/28/amazon-forests-poisoned-by-mercury-from-gold-mining/
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#AmazonForests poisoned by #mercury from #GoldMining
Study finds unprecedented levels of #MercuryPollution
January 28, 2022
by Cheryl Walker"Wake Forest faculty in the University’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and its Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered that gold mining in the Amazon rainforest is causing exceptionally high levels of mercury pollution in the old-growth rainforest near the mining sites.
"The total mercury concentrations in a forested area in #Peru’s #LosAmigosConservationConcession were the highest ever recorded.
"The study, 'Amazon Forests Capture High Levels of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution From #ArtisanalGoldMining,' appears Jan. 28 in the journal Nature Communications. The research team was led by Jacqueline R. Gerson, as a Ph.D. student at Duke University.
“What this study found was that the wildest forests left on earth are capturing mercury released by artisanal mining, and at superfund-site levels,” said Miles Silman, Andrew Sabin Presidential Chair of Conservation Biology and Director of Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. 'The wildlife and humans that live within these wild forests are poisoned as well, with effects that we are just beginning to understand.'
"''This study reveals, for the first time, the mechanism of how mercury released into the air by gold mining contaminates #TropicalForests and forest #soils,' Fernandez said. “This atmospheric mercury, which is either deposited on to leaves or absorbed by leaves, eventually falls to the ground and gets incorporated into forest soils.'
"The region of #MadreDeDios is considered a global #biodiversity hotspot, but in recent decades has suffered an unprecedented #GoldRush. mining is doing irreversible damage to one of the world’s largest remaining pieces of #TropicalRainforest and threatening its survival. In the Madre de Dios region of Peru, east of the Andes Mountains, nearly 250,000 acres of rainforest, roughly the size of Dallas, Texas, have been razed and transformed into somewhere that looks like a desert pockmarked by tens of thousands of mercury contaminated mining ponds by illegal #GoldMining.
"Gold miners use toxic mercury to pull flakes of gold out of the river sediment. Then, they separate the gold from the mercury using open fire ovens. The heat melts the gold and turns the mercury to a toxic vapor.
"'People had a lot of ideas about where mercury might be going in these tropical landscapes, and they turned out to be wrong,' Silman said. 'The paper shows that mercury isn’t staying in the mining zone, but rather that trees are scrubbing mercury from the air and transferring it into forest #ecosystems, and into forest wildlife and peoples, where it moves up the food chain with unknown effects.'
"The study also reveals how these contaminated soils serve as a repository for this deposited mercury, preventing. or at least slowing, its transfer into rivers and lakes where it is transformed into a more toxic form of mercury, #Methylmercury, and contaminate aquatic food webs."
https://news.wfu.edu/2022/01/28/amazon-forests-poisoned-by-mercury-from-gold-mining/
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#AmazonForests poisoned by #mercury from #GoldMining
Study finds unprecedented levels of #MercuryPollution
January 28, 2022
by Cheryl Walker"Wake Forest faculty in the University’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and its Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered that gold mining in the Amazon rainforest is causing exceptionally high levels of mercury pollution in the old-growth rainforest near the mining sites.
"The total mercury concentrations in a forested area in #Peru’s #LosAmigosConservationConcession were the highest ever recorded.
"The study, 'Amazon Forests Capture High Levels of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution From #ArtisanalGoldMining,' appears Jan. 28 in the journal Nature Communications. The research team was led by Jacqueline R. Gerson, as a Ph.D. student at Duke University.
“What this study found was that the wildest forests left on earth are capturing mercury released by artisanal mining, and at superfund-site levels,” said Miles Silman, Andrew Sabin Presidential Chair of Conservation Biology and Director of Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. 'The wildlife and humans that live within these wild forests are poisoned as well, with effects that we are just beginning to understand.'
"''This study reveals, for the first time, the mechanism of how mercury released into the air by gold mining contaminates #TropicalForests and forest #soils,' Fernandez said. “This atmospheric mercury, which is either deposited on to leaves or absorbed by leaves, eventually falls to the ground and gets incorporated into forest soils.'
"The region of #MadreDeDios is considered a global #biodiversity hotspot, but in recent decades has suffered an unprecedented #GoldRush. mining is doing irreversible damage to one of the world’s largest remaining pieces of #TropicalRainforest and threatening its survival. In the Madre de Dios region of Peru, east of the Andes Mountains, nearly 250,000 acres of rainforest, roughly the size of Dallas, Texas, have been razed and transformed into somewhere that looks like a desert pockmarked by tens of thousands of mercury contaminated mining ponds by illegal #GoldMining.
"Gold miners use toxic mercury to pull flakes of gold out of the river sediment. Then, they separate the gold from the mercury using open fire ovens. The heat melts the gold and turns the mercury to a toxic vapor.
"'People had a lot of ideas about where mercury might be going in these tropical landscapes, and they turned out to be wrong,' Silman said. 'The paper shows that mercury isn’t staying in the mining zone, but rather that trees are scrubbing mercury from the air and transferring it into forest #ecosystems, and into forest wildlife and peoples, where it moves up the food chain with unknown effects.'
"The study also reveals how these contaminated soils serve as a repository for this deposited mercury, preventing. or at least slowing, its transfer into rivers and lakes where it is transformed into a more toxic form of mercury, #Methylmercury, and contaminate aquatic food webs."
https://news.wfu.edu/2022/01/28/amazon-forests-poisoned-by-mercury-from-gold-mining/
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#AmazonForests poisoned by #mercury from #GoldMining
Study finds unprecedented levels of #MercuryPollution
January 28, 2022
by Cheryl Walker"Wake Forest faculty in the University’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and its Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered that gold mining in the Amazon rainforest is causing exceptionally high levels of mercury pollution in the old-growth rainforest near the mining sites.
"The total mercury concentrations in a forested area in #Peru’s #LosAmigosConservationConcession were the highest ever recorded.
"The study, 'Amazon Forests Capture High Levels of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution From #ArtisanalGoldMining,' appears Jan. 28 in the journal Nature Communications. The research team was led by Jacqueline R. Gerson, as a Ph.D. student at Duke University.
“What this study found was that the wildest forests left on earth are capturing mercury released by artisanal mining, and at superfund-site levels,” said Miles Silman, Andrew Sabin Presidential Chair of Conservation Biology and Director of Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. 'The wildlife and humans that live within these wild forests are poisoned as well, with effects that we are just beginning to understand.'
"''This study reveals, for the first time, the mechanism of how mercury released into the air by gold mining contaminates #TropicalForests and forest #soils,' Fernandez said. “This atmospheric mercury, which is either deposited on to leaves or absorbed by leaves, eventually falls to the ground and gets incorporated into forest soils.'
"The region of #MadreDeDios is considered a global #biodiversity hotspot, but in recent decades has suffered an unprecedented #GoldRush. mining is doing irreversible damage to one of the world’s largest remaining pieces of #TropicalRainforest and threatening its survival. In the Madre de Dios region of Peru, east of the Andes Mountains, nearly 250,000 acres of rainforest, roughly the size of Dallas, Texas, have been razed and transformed into somewhere that looks like a desert pockmarked by tens of thousands of mercury contaminated mining ponds by illegal #GoldMining.
"Gold miners use toxic mercury to pull flakes of gold out of the river sediment. Then, they separate the gold from the mercury using open fire ovens. The heat melts the gold and turns the mercury to a toxic vapor.
"'People had a lot of ideas about where mercury might be going in these tropical landscapes, and they turned out to be wrong,' Silman said. 'The paper shows that mercury isn’t staying in the mining zone, but rather that trees are scrubbing mercury from the air and transferring it into forest #ecosystems, and into forest wildlife and peoples, where it moves up the food chain with unknown effects.'
"The study also reveals how these contaminated soils serve as a repository for this deposited mercury, preventing. or at least slowing, its transfer into rivers and lakes where it is transformed into a more toxic form of mercury, #Methylmercury, and contaminate aquatic food webs."
https://news.wfu.edu/2022/01/28/amazon-forests-poisoned-by-mercury-from-gold-mining/
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