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S U B S C R I B E
Monday, 19 October, 2009
Green: Pollutants spread far and wide
Melting glaciers releasing persistent organic pollutants—toxic chemicals that take decades and decades to degrade—have made headlines in Switzerland lately. But some of the highest concentrations of POPs can be found in the blood and breast milk of Inuit populations of arctic people who were never exposed to the original product. WRS’s Pete Forster invited Stockholm Convention senior scientific officer Fatoumata Keita Ouane to talk about the dangers—and why some of those chemicals are still being used today.
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