Tom Laffay as they talk about their project
Mercury Alert, in an event organized by the Institute for Regional and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Pulitzer Center.
The
Mercury Alert project has documented why mercury is such a controversial pollutant in the Guiana Shield. Journalists have met the actors involved in the mostly illegal trade, spoke with miners who see their subsistence threatened by mercury prohibitions, health experts, and traffickers.
Ebus is a freelance journalist, investigator, and photographer from the Netherlands based in Bogotá, Colombia. His work has been published in English, Dutch, and Spanish. His reports have appeared in the
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