Mercury Is Quietly Poisoning Food Crops: What Is Being Done About It?

 In environmental discussions, mercury contamination in crops is rarely emphasized. However, a recent study that compared fields only 500 meters from an artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) site with those located 8 kilometers away found that mercury concentrations in leaves and grains were roughly 10-50 times higher at the nearer farm

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