Deforestation around the Amazon River in Peru has increased six-fold in recent years as miners, driven by record gold prices, blast and clear huge tracts of lowland rainforest, according to a Duke University led study. Published in the journal PLoS ONE, the study used NASA satellite imagery combined with economic analyses of gold prices and […]
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Healing’s Golden Touch Explained
For more than 75 years, gold and platinum have been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. How, and why, gold should work in this fashion has remained something of a mystery to medical scientists, but now some canny Harvard Medical School researchers believe that they have pulled back the curtain to reveal […]