Tag: toxic waste

• Saturday, July 27th 2019 - 10:08 UTC

  Chile faced with the challenge of 740 fragile tailing dams from copper mining

  

  From the sky, the glistening emerald ponds of northern Chile are almost beautiful, but closer to the ground they harbor an ugly and dangerous secret: the reservoirs, filled with toxic waste from the country's mining industry, are ticking time bombs.