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The Chlorpyrifos Ban Is a Win for Science—and Children

NRDC advocates and our partners spent decades fighting against a highly toxic pesticide that harms kids, farmworkers, and their families....

Why Responsible Artisanal & Small-Scale Gold Mining Matters, for People & the Environment

Artisanal and small-scale mining accounts for 20 percent of the global supply of gold and currently generates a combined $25-30 billion...

Indigenous communities in Ecuador Amazon protest mining projects

CGTN Latin America 05:29, 17-Nov-2021 Indigenous communities in Ecuador’s Amazon are protesting mining projects in their territories, as...

GEF PRESS RELEASE Donors pledge $413 million to help most vulnerable cope with climate crisis

November 9, 2021 In a show of support for those most at risk from climate change, 12 donor governments have pledged $413 million in new...

Climate Change Is Acidifying and Contaminating Drinking Water and Alpine Ecosystems

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

Minamata COP-4 opportunity & celebration “global commitment to putting mercury pollution to an End"

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...

First Person: Telling the tragic story of mercury poisoning in Japan- Minamata(cop)4

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

Ecuadorian scientists face long prison sentences in politically charged case over COVID-19 tests

29 OCT 2021 3:15 PM BYMICHELE CATANZARO Prosecutors say tests used in Quito in 2020 were subpar and should have been sent back;...

Bluefin tuna reveal global patterns of mercury pollution and bioavailability in the world's oceans

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