Thursday, May 13, 2010

Arsenic toenails

Arsenic Toenails

By Catalyst, ABC Television, Australia, March 11, 2010
Watch the video at: http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2843289.htm

Is the glittering prosperity from Australia's gold mining being tarnished by the environmental impact of extraction techniques? Dr Paul Willis meets up with researchers from the University of Ballarat who are collecting children's toenails to find out how much arsenic they contain.