Stream pollution from mountaintop mining doesn´t stay put in the water
(WorldNews Environment)

Research News Uptake by stream insects and spiders carries potentially toxic selenium from water to land Decades of mining in southern West Virginia have filled streams with chemical contaminants. April 9, 2020 Since the 1980s, a sprawling mountaintop removal mining complex in southern West Virginia has been leaching pollutants -- such as selenium -- into nearby streams at levels deemed unsafe for aquatic life. Now, even though the...