Study points to need to clean up legacy mining pollution that poses health risks to millions

It is estimated that 23 million people living on the world's floodplains are being exposed to potentially dangerous concentrations of toxic waste derived from mining, much of it the result of legacy activity. This was the key finding of a...

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