September 12, 2007

Pollution blamed for fall in Arctic baby boys

Twice as many girls as boys are being born across much of the Arctic because of pollution from industrialised countries, scientists have found. The study also found that in parts of Russia many newborn boys were sickly or underweight.

The Scandinavian scientists behind the study suspect the same to be the case in Greenland and Canada.


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