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How a Gold Mining Boom is Killing the Children of Nigeria
Posted by Yale Environment 360: Elizabeth Grossman on March 1st, 2012
Yale Environment 360: In early 2010, while working in the impoverished rural region of Zamfara in northwestern Nigeria, the group Médecins Sans Frontières -- Doctors Without Borders -- encountered many young children suffering from fevers, seizures, and convulsions. An unusually high number of very young children, many under age five, were dying, and there were many fresh graves.
The doctors initially suspected malaria, meningitis, or typhoid, all common in the region. But when the sick children didn’t respond to anti-malarial...
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Interview: Emerging Challenges In U.S. Environmental Health
Posted by Yale Environment 360: Elizabeth Grossman on August 11th, 2011
Yale Environment 360: Lynn Goldman, a pediatrician and epidemiologist, has spent her professional life trying to understand and alleviate threats from environmental sources, including the impact of chemical exposures on children. Her interest in the field dates back to her childhood in Galveston, Texas, where she grew up along the Gulf of Mexico surrounded by oil refineries and chemical plants that lit up the night sky with eerie blue, green, and orange hues.
George Washington UniversityLynn Goldman In an interview...