In El Salvador, a river without fish feeds fear of mining
In 2017 El Salvador became the first country in the world to outlaw metal mining due to the harmful effects of chemicals such as cyanide and mercury used in the extraction process
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El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. The runoff from a gold mine upstream, already…
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