The original version of this article, by Elizabeth Grossman, appeared on Yale Environment 360.In early 2010, while working in the impoverished rural region of Zamfara in northwestern Nigeria, the group Médecins Sans Frontières – Doctors Without Borders – encountered many young children suffering from fevers, seizures, and convulsions. An unusually high number of very young … Continue reading How a Gold Mining Boom Is Killing Children in Nigeria