Scientific America By Elizabeth Miller on November 4, 2021 Hotter, drier mountains leach more metal into streams from abandoned mines and...

02 NOV 2021 The first segment of the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP-4) takes...

UN News Global perspective Human stories 30 October 2021 Health Masami Ogata is a survivor of Minamata Disease, a debilitating illness...

Rocío Lloret Céspedes August 18, 2021 In the extreme west of Bolivia’s Beni department, north of the capital La Paz, Amazonian forests...

RESEARCH ARTICLE PNAS September 21, 2021 118 (38) e2111205118; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111205118 Bluefin tuna (BFT) is an apex...

By David Papannah and Laurel Sutherland As the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) continues to pursue the goal of achieving...

By Ken Lee and Michael Greenstone Click to Read the Report SUMMARY Climate Change is Exacerbating Air Pollution. Air Pollution is a...

By Sheena McKenzie, CNN In countries where air pollution levels are below standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO), people...

Written by Elizabeth Boham, MD "Mercury can affect nearly all your organs, especially the brain, heart, kidneys, and gut, and many...

By Joanna Kedzierska "Levels of deforestation in Colombia have significantly increased in recent years due to logging by the legal mining...

IF YOU ARE HEAVY, it could be making you sick and tired and age prematurely. And I don’t mean heavy with fat … I mean heavy with heavy...

A month after the sinkhole was registered in the lower part of Gonzalo Pizarro Street, which has a diameter of 40 meters and a depth of...

In partnership with Fiocruz, CINCIA, and other institutions, WWF-Brazil has created the Mercury Observatory, which assembles studies and...

Exposure to outdoor (ambient) and indoor (household) particulate air pollution places our youngest infants at increased health risk. A...

Thirty years ago, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established to tackle the world’s most challenging environmental issues. With...

Did you know the Tuna fish caught in the Pacific Ocean contains #mercury discharged from 87 Chilean mercury cyanidation gold ore &...

The harmful chemical has a unique quality: it can build up in our river systems over time Methylmercury poisonings in aquatic ecosystems...

Minamata disease paralyzes the human central nervous system and causes birth defects.

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that can affect the human nervous system. Eating fish contaminated with mercury can cause serious harm to...

Half a century after mercury contamination near Grassy Narrows First Nation, the poisoning continues to have deadly consequences —...