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“Scientists warned on Thursday that the long-term health of Inuit hunters in eastern Greenland was under threat, due to so-called ‘forever chemicals’ in the atmosphere and their diet of polar bear and seal meat.
Christian Sonne, from Denmark’s Aarhus University, said the Ittoqqortoormiit fishing and hunting community had levels of the chemicals—also known as PFAS—in their blood 13 times higher than the risk threshold.
The remote zone is particularly affected by the contamination because the chemicals are carried there by nearby sea and air currents, said Sonne, author of a study of the issue published in the journal Cell Reports Sustainability.” …