Are pollution and poverty alerting the sex ratio of our babies?

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Are pollution and poverty alerting the sex ratio of our babies?

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.A swathe of pollutants and indicators of poverty have been linked to changes in the ratio of baby boys to girls born to millions of parents.A study of half the US population and the entire Swedish population examined more than 100 possible factors and found, for example, that mercury, chromium, and aluminum pollution correlated wi…