Argentina just ripped up its pioneering glacier law. What does this mean for millions of people’s drinking water?
Javier Milei’s reforms to the law will open up high-altitude areas to mining and risk water reserves already strained by the climate crisis, say activistsSaul Zeballos was born and raised in Jáchal, a community tucked into the foothills of the Andes in Argentina, drinking water from the river that bears the town’s name. That changed in 2005, when the Veladero gold and silver mine started operating in San Juan province.A decade later, a major cyanide spill from the mine polluted the rivers in the...
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