"Because of the boom of mercury-enabled illegal gold mining in places like the Amazon, there has been a huge spike in reports of mercury releases to air, water and soil, and of mercury exposure to Indigenous human populations," explains CINCIA Executive Director and Wake Forest Research Associate Professor in Biology Luis Fernandez. "There is a pressing need for effective methods to understand and quantify the impact of this mercury on already vulnerable and marginalized native populations of the Amazon."
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