#mining mercury

[moonlightsdreaming]

Sailor Moon Stars | Sailor Star Song

[bethanythebogwitch]

From Reddit

[joe-mazzello-archive]

REGAN'S COUNTDOWN TO QUEEN | week six | colors

freddie + rainbow (happy pride)

[soundsofmyuniverse]

Happy Birthday Freddie Mercury // September 5, 1946.

[vampirecorleone]

"I am the pretty guardian who fights for love and for intelligence. I am Sailor Mercury! Douse yourself in water and repent!"

Sailor Senshi Appreciation - Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury

[userjohndeacon]

QUEEN ROCK MONTREAL + moments that hit different in IMAX

[allmythologies]

greek & roman mythology

[bog-witch-extraordinaire]

I'm back on my Heaven Will Be Mine brainrot so when I remembered this meme exists I knew I had to draw it as Saturn and Mercury

[reasonsforhope]

"Sunlight dapples the once-denuded forest floor as saplings spread their branches and leaves overhead, slowly forming a lush canopy.

Beside each young tree, a sign notes its species. Lupuna, says one, the colloquial Peruvian term, and below that its scientific name, Ceiba pentandra — in other words, a kapok tree, known for its cotton-like fibers. Huito, says another sign, or Geinpa americana, which produces edible gray berries.

Each sapling is distinct, a reflection of the Amazon's stunning biodiversity, with so many different species that you might go acres without finding a repeat.

Yet this young forest did not spring up naturally. It has been carefully recreated by humans in an area that was, until just three years ago, a heavily contaminated moonscape.

This land was stripped of its dense vegetation by miners scouring the subsoil for tiny specks of gold, using mercury to separate the gold from the sediment. Many thought that a healthy forest would never thrive in impoverished, mercury-laden topsoil and that the piles of sandy tailings, the residue from the gold mining effort, and the pools of wastewater were irremediable...

"It feels good to see the forest grow back," says Pedro Ynfantes, 66, the miner whose legal mining concession of 1,110 acres includes this 10-acre patch of land where this young forest is located. "We don't want to deforest. When we had the opportunity to let the forest grow back, we took it. It's much better this way."

The opportunity he refers to came via U.S. nonprofit Pure Earth, which works with communities across the Global Southto remediate environmental problems left behind by mining, much of it illegal. Their biggest targets are mercury and lead contamination...

Security forces have launched anti-mining operations down the years, even blowing up the miners' equipment deep in the jungle. But most local politicians, including Madre de Dios' members of Peru's national congress, broadly support the miners, who are a powerful constituency in the relatively sparsely populated jungle region.

Restoring the forest

Pictured: France Cabanillas works for the nonprofit group Pure Earth, which is spearheading an effort to plant saplings in areas of the Peruvian Amazon that were devastated by illegal gold mining.

Now there's an effort to address the damage. Initially working with the region's legal miners, most of whom were here before the 2009 gold rush kicked off, the nonprofit group Pure Earth is using this patch of Ynfantes' land as a pilot project to show how the rainforest can be regenerated after the last traces of gold have been plucked from the soil.

It took a sustained outreach effort. Many miners are wary of or even downright hostile to foreign NGOs, which have repeatedly called for gold mining to be banned or severely curbed in the Peruvian Amazon — steps they say would cost them their livelihood.

"I am feeling optimistic," says France Cabanillas, Pure Earth's local coordinator, who has been appealing to the frustration of many miners at the heavy toll they have taken on the jungle and their desire to minimize their environmental footprint for the next generation.

"We still have a lot to do but this pilot is going well. Down the years, the miners have been getting a lot of stick but not much carrot when it comes to their environmental impacts," says Cabanillas. "We are offering them a carrot, allowing them to remediate their own impacts. Many of the miners do not want to be destroying the rainforest."

Before the miners plant the carefully-selected mix of tree species, they had to prepare the earth. Most of the topsoil had been washed away by the miners' heavy use of hoses.

That preparation involved adding biochar (burnt organic material) and even molasses, which contain fixed carbon and minerals, along with various other nutrients. The miners also had to dig tiny moats around the saplings to prevent all of this new planting from being washed away. Now, after three years, the forest is visibly coming back.

The rejuvenated rainforest also mitigates the impact of the mercury used by many of the illegal miners.

Research done by Pure Earth shows that the barren, sandy soil emits mercury. But in a rainforest, the ecosystem actually absorbs some of the metal, boosting public health."

-via NPR, April 2, 2024

[slobozan-shitposting]

The peak of my brain rot

[merctheplanettotally]

fuck me man all i can think about is seawatt and evbo and emf and FUCKKK ok. calm down. time to get wording.

emf being originally above evbo but then immediately turning to socialism when evbo beats him 1 time is one of the best moments out of either parts (tbf if an absolute baddie of a parkourer beat me in a battle i'd prolly start listening to them as well)

evbo you are ICONIC but also the stupidest fucking guy around i love you sm. throws you into a blender. also i feel no one ever thinks about tge implications of doing parkour on CRYSTALS!!!!!!!! bro got like five bajillion scars from that i know it (seawatt helped him when he got back though trust 🙏)

anyways i also keep thinking about seawatt. ALWAYS. he's so complex for youtube shorts-core mc rp (is it really an rp?) that my brain quite literally will not let him free (rest in peace bro you did NYOT deserve to die the way you did 💔💔💔)

seawatt. you used the tools and people you had around you to get revenge for something that had been building for oh so long only to be the one tricked. i just wish you could've lived to see the better future evbo planned for. i'm sure he would have wanted you to live to see it as well.

ok ramble over i am. sigh.

[moonlightsdreaming]

[pilot-boi]

The kids who escaped

POV you are seeing a bird for the first time

[sayahomu]

heaven will be mine dump!

i love drawing with crayon on decade-old printer paper it's my lifeblood

[soundsofmyuniverse]

Happy Birthday Freddie Mercury // September 5, 1946.

[bloodofasteria]

whatever planet is in your 1st house, people try to provoke out of you. moon in first = feelings, mars in first = anger, mercury in first = intelligence etc