Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Mar 232 minMercury Poisoning| BRAIN & NERVOUS SYSTEM CENTER | Medical Author: Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD | | Medical Editor: William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP,...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Mar 152 minAmazon rainforest nears tipping point that may see it become savannah| New Scientist | Environment | 7 March 2022 | | By Adam Vaughan | More than three-quarters of the world's largest rainforest has become...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Mar 82 minAmazon rainforest reaching tipping point, researchers say| BBC | Science | Climate Change | 19 hours ago | | By Helen Briggs Environment correspondent | "The trees are losing health and could be...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Mar 12 minIn a biodiversity haven, mining drives highest ever recorded levels of mercury| Mongabay Series: Amazon Conservation, Artisanal Mining | | by John C. Cannon on 28 February 2022 | They realized that the pathogens...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Feb 282 minFrom Wall Street to the Amazon: Big capital funds mining-driven deforestation| Mongabay Series: Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, Land rights and extractives | | by Jenny Gonzales on 22 February 2022 | Major...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Feb 252 minPeruvian gold rush turns pristine rainforests into heavily polluted mercury sinks| Eurek Alert| Peer-Reviewed Publication | | Duke University | 28-Jan-2022 | Scientists record the highest levels of atmospheric mercury...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Feb 162 minPrince William's speech at the Earthshot Prize Innovation Showcase in Dubai| Earthshot Prize | 16 February 2022 | “We must make this the decade of the Earthshot. A decade where we all respond with urgency and...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Feb 92 minThe illegal Brazilian gold you may be wearing| BBC News | Latin America & Caribbean | | February 02, 2022 | A special task force in Brazil is conducting raids deep in the Amazon, in...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Feb 32 minBiden Administration to Reinstate Mercury Pollution Rules Weakened Under Trump| The New York Times | January 31, 2021 | | By Coral Davenport | Quotable: “Sound science makes it clear that we need to limit mercury...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Dec 3, 20212 min"It’s as if we’re in Mad Max’: warnings for Amazon as goldmining dredges occupy river"| Guardian | | Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro | Wed 24 Nov 2021 17.04 GMT | “They’re making a gram of gold an hour down there,” one...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Sep 1, 20212 minAir pollution is cutting more years from people's lives than smoking, war or HIV/AIDS| By Sheena McKenzie, CNN | | Updated 5:47 PM ET, Wed September 1, 2021 | The report's authors said that air pollution was primarily...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Jun 25, 20212 minA Fragile Stage: Air Pollution's Impact on NewbornsExposure to outdoor (ambient) and indoor (household) particulate air pollution places our youngest infants at increased health risk. A...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Jun 24, 20212 minLeaching gold with cassava: An option to eliminate mercury use in artisanal gold mining.| Journal of Cleaner Production | Volume 311, 15 August 2021, 127531 | | P. Torkamana, M. M. Veiga, L. R. P. de Andrade Lima, L .A....
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Jan 7, 20212 minMercury has an atmospheric lifetime of around a year University of Oxford earth scientists report | University of Oxford | Influencing global policy on mercury University of Oxford earth scientists with diverse expertise have combined...