Awful finding in a new study: airborne mercury from gold mining is contaminating food in Nigeria.
Reminds me of when I went to the Brazilian Amazon in 2019 and found that mercury miners were dumping in river tributaries was making Indigenous villagers sick.
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Invisible poison: Airborne mercury from gold mining is contaminating African food crops, new study warns
New research reveals airborne mercury from unregulated gold mining is contaminating African food crops directly through the leaves, not the soil, as previously thought. This urgent finding shows plant...