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"Our cities are complex places of work, industry and residential activities.
This often makes it hard to pin down the spread of different contaminants
throughout them.
This can be a concern, especially given mounting evidence there is no “safe”
limit of exposure for many of the chemicals we use in our daily lives. The
connections between contamination, food, water and human health add to these
concerns.
Measuring contamination in soil or dust is a good start. But this can only tell
us the level of a contaminant at the place it was sampled. Our two new studies
have used backyard bees to better monitor contamination in urban environments."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
