Gas drilling vs wildlife in Peruvian Amazon and a Goldman Prize winner on mercury contamination
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Summary: In this episode we discuss new science on the impacts on birds and amphibians of drilling for natural gas in the tropics with a Smithsonian researcher, and a Goldman Prize winner discusses her ongoing campaign to rid mercury contamination from the environment, which is (still) having alarming human health effects. Plus we round up the top environmental news.