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August 2012 - Environment

Lead Poisoning in Mexico 

Mexico’s booming business in recycling car batteries leads to growing cases of lead poisoning.

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A house in Bolivia treated with insecticidal paint.

New Paint Cures Chagas Disease in Latin America

A new house paint developed by a small Spanish company called Inesba may provide a cure for eradicating the pests that cause Chagas Disease, which is highly prevalent in Latin America. 

How have animals fared after nuclear accidents?

For a little bird, bee or butterfly trying to make it in the world, which is the worse place to land: Fukushima or Chernobyl? On the one hand, there’s the risk from the release of radioactive materials that occurred in Japan just over a year ago. On the other, there’s the threat of mutations from accumulated environmental contamination over the past quarter-century from the Chernobyl accident in Ukraine. 

This article reviews recent research findings about the effects that these two major nuclear disasters have had on wildlife. 
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