Study: Agricultural land contaminated with heavy metals - over 1 billion people at risk
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Between 14% and 17% of the world's agricultural land is contaminated with at least one toxic heavy metal, warns a study published in the journal Science and cited by AFP. This contamination could pose a direct risk to the health of up to 1.4 billion people. The study provides an unprecedented overview of heavy metal pollution, thanks to a meta-analysis of over 796,000 soil samples and the use of artificial intelligence algorithms to extrapolate data globally. • Toxic metals above permissible
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