Women in two Amazonian villages have high levels of mercury in their blood and are advised to remove fish from their diets. But the state is not addressing the root causes of the problem – mining.
A recent study on women’s exposure to mercury in Latin American gold-producing countries Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and Bolivia by the International Pollutant Elimination Network (IPEN) and the Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) found worryingly elevated levels of mercury in the population.
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