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Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic by Maria Cone Grove Press, 2005; $24.00
Flying over the Arctic, where few signs of human habitation and even fewer belching factories break the vast expanses of rock, open water, and snowy ice, one would scarcely believe that this is an environmentally wounded landscape. Yet according to Maria Cone, an environmental journalist, the Inuit residents of Qaanaaq, a village on the northwestern coast of Greenland, have the highest levels of toxic contaminants of any population on Earth. In the 1990s, Cone writes, many Greenlanders carried such high loads of mercury and PCBs that...
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