Invisible contaminants and food security in former coal mining areas of Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil

• Ngā kaituhi matua: Graziela Dias Blanco (Author), Rafael Barbizan Sühs (Author), Escarlet Brizola (Author), Patrícia Figueiredo Corrêa (Author), Mari Lucia Campos (Author), Natalia Hanazaki (Author)
• Hōputu: Pukapuka
• I whakaputaina: BMC, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Ngā marau: article
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Abstract Background Mining activities have environmental impacts due to sediment movement and contamination of areas and may also pose risks to people's food security. In Brazil, the majority of coal mining activities are in the south, in the Santa Catarina carboniferous region. In this region,...