{
  "id": 786680,
  "title": "A mine polluted a Zambian river in 2025: Residents continue to live with the impacts",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/a-mine-polluted-a-zambian-river-in-2025-residents-continue-to-live",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-13T16:13:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/a-mine-polluted-a-zambian-river-in-2025-residents-continue-to-live-with-the-impacts/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "One and a half years after the collapse of a large tailings dam in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province, the environmental and human impacts of the toxic spill continue to affect residents, civil society members have told Mongabay. The dam, which is used to store mining waste and is owned by Chinese copper company Sino-Metals Leach Zambia, […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}