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The Chlorpyrifos Ban Is a Win for Science—and Children

Dec 3, 2021
3 min

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. In August, the EPA finally banned it. September 17, 2021 Nicole Greenfield Back in 1989, a groundbreaking NRDC report called Intolerable Risk detailed the perils children faced just by dutifully eating their fruits and vegetables. “These staples of children's diets routinely, and lawfully, contain dangerous amounts of pesticides, which pose

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

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Nov 23, 2021
2 min

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 each year. Most of us come in contact with gold on a daily basis. About 20% of that gold comes from millions of artisanal and small-scale gold miners around the world, whose livelihoods depend on this activity. But due to a lack of awareness or alternatives, many of these operations use toxic mercury to extract their gold. We believe that whe

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Indigenous communities in Ecuador Amazon protest mining projects

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Nov 18, 2021
2 min

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 constitutional court judges held a historic hearing in the region on the communities’ roles on mining project decisions. The country’s President Guillermo Lasso, a conservative ex-banker, wants to expand mining to bring in more private investments but has promised legal stability and respect for some of the concessions already granted. Indig

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

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Nov 10, 2021
2 min

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 funding for the Least Developed Countries Fund during the COP26 climate summit. The LDCF, hosted by the Global Environment Facility, is the only dedicated source of climate resilience funds for the 46 Least Developed Countries, which have contributed the least to carbon emissions and face some of the highest risks from the effects of climate

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Climate Change Is Acidifying and Contaminating Drinking Water and Alpine Ecosystems

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Nov 10, 2021
2 min

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 natural deposits Geamana village flooded with waste water from mining, Romania, taken in May 2019. Credit: Lukas Bischoff Getty Images Garrett Rue grew up fly fishing in central Colorado, often surrounded by mountains stained amber and maroon, and hiking along streams that seemed to borrow those colors. Sometimes he would cast for native tr

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

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Nov 2, 2021
2 min

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 place online from 1 to 5 November with over a thousand participants and an ambitious programme of work. Are you aware about this global deadly mercury climate crisis, the human health and global biodiversity costs for jewellery and electronics gold? December 17, 2020, UK Super Mega Rock Star @robbiewilliams reported he 'almost died’ from mer

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

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Nov 2, 2021
2 min

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 caused by industrial mercury poisoning, which originated in the Japanese town of the same name in the 1950s. As a UN conference on preventing future poisoning outbreaks gets underway, we hear Mr. Ogata’s story from COP4. In the 3rd anniversary of the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP)3, the victims of the Minamata Disease send their true voi

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

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Nov 1, 2021
2 min

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; scientists disagree Two Ecuadorian scientists could face long prison sentences for their role in a criminal case involving the acquisition of allegedly substandard COVID-19 tests by the city of Quito during the first months of the pandemic. If found guilty, molecular biologist Linda Guamán and public health scientist Ximena Abarca could receive sente

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

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Oct 26, 2021
2 min

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 predatory, long-lived, migratory pelagic fish that is widely distributed throughout the world's oceans. These fish have very high concentrations of neurotoxic methylmercury (MeHg) in their tissues, which increase with age. Our study shows that Hg accumulation rates (MARs) in BFT as a global pollution index can reveal global patterns of Hg pollut

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