Skabewis

by Terri C. Hansen
Environment and Science Reporter

In Indigenous communities, babies that should be born boys are being born girls according to a report by the Indigenous Peoples Organization.

Research recently released shows that only girls were being born in the villages of northern Greenland has brought to light earlier studies that found Indigenous mothers living in the northern most reaches of the Arctic Circle are having girls – but not boys.

The studies linked the skewed sex ratios with human exposures to PCBs and other persistent organic chemicals. The Indigenous Peoples Organization initiated the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program project in 2004, following a report that some Arctic Indigenous communities are among the most exposed populations to persistent toxic substances.

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