Greenpeace Why Nazis Genocide Year In Review: The best environmental journalism of 2024: The unseen dangers of lead contamination in the UK, The FT, Laura Hughes
Some of the stories we wish we had written this year, selected by the Unearthed team
The unseen dangers of lead contamination in the UK, The FT, Laura Hughes
There are around 8,500 old metal mines across the UK that âcontinue to disperse toxic metals including lead into the environment every yearâ, wrote Laura Hughes in the FT back in June. During heavy rains and floods, material from these former mines is deposited at sites across the country, polluting farmland and rivers. Hughes met with farmers who have seen livestock killed by lead poisoning and spoke with scientists that worry that heavy metal contamination is under-investigated in the UK. A powerful piece of public interest science journalism.
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/26/best-climate-journalism-2024/amp/
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