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Child Labor in Mining and Global Supply Chains

Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)

Jan 13
1 min

Child Labor in Mining and Global Supply Chains

| Child Labor | Staff Reporter | January 13, 2023 | Child labor in mining and global supply chains has been a long-standing issue that has received increasing attention in recent years. Children as young as five years old have been found to be working in mines and quarries, often in dangerous and hazardous conditions. The use of child labor in mining is prevalent in many developing countries, particularly in Africa and Asia. In these countries, children are often forced to wo

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Participation of Alchemy Mining Group, Inc. in the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership

Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)

Dec 22, 2022
1 min

Participation of Alchemy Mining Group, Inc. in the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership

| Mercury News | Bruce A. Cosgrove | December 22, 2022 | Alchemy Mining Group, Inc., ("AMGI"), (the “Company”) is pleased to announce on December 05, 2022, the Company received official confirmation from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) that the Company is welcomed as a partner for the Global Mercury Partnership in the Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) and mercury waste management sectors. The UNEP Global Mercury Partnership aims to protect human hea

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Mother loses peripheral vision from apparent exposure to mercury in beauty creams.

Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)

Nov 30, 2022
2 min

Mother loses peripheral vision from apparent exposure to mercury in beauty creams.

| CNN Health | Meera Senthilingam, CNN | November 29, 2022 | Editor’s note: This story is part of 'White lies', a series by CNN's As Equals, investigating skin whitening practices worldwide to expose the underlying drivers of colorism, the industry that profits from it and the cost to individuals and communities. At high levels, the inorganic mercury ("elemental mercury") typically found in these products is extremely toxic. Chronic exposure can lead to kidney and liver damag

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How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth!

Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)

Aug 26, 2022
2 min

How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth!

| Inside Climate News | This article is part of a series produced in partnership with NBC News and Undark Magazine, a non-profit, editorially independent digital magazine exploring the intersection of science and society. A smelting company has poisoned rivers, killed off boreal forest and belched out more sulfur dioxide than active volcanoes. Now it wants to produce more metal for the “green economy.” Vasily Ryabinin scales an overlook on the Taimyr Peninsula in June 2020, w

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Is the gold you’re buying helping to finance Russia’s war against Ukraine?

Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)

Aug 25, 2022
2 min

Is the gold you’re buying helping to finance Russia’s war against Ukraine?

| News | 16 March 2022 | by ARM | Russia is also the third-largest producer of gold in the world. Open Letter to the Jewerly Industry The jewelry industry is susceptible to exploitation if the Russian government uses gold supply chains as a tool to evade sanctions and further subsidize their military aggression against Ukraine. It is imperative that we work together to prevent this from happening. As unprecedented financial sanctions against Russia prevent it from accessing

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Russia is plundering gold in Sudan to boost Putin's war effort in Ukraine

Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)

Aug 24, 2022
2 min

Russia is plundering gold in Sudan to boost Putin's war effort in Ukraine

| July 29, 2022 | CNN Exclusive | by Nima Elbagir, Barbara Arvanitidis, Tamara Qiblawi, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Mohammed Abo Al Gheit and Darya Tarasova | Video by Alex Platt and Mark Baron | Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) Days after Moscow launched its bloody war on Ukraine, a Russian cargo plane stood on a Khartoum runway, a strip of tarmac surrounded by red-orange sand. The aircraft's manifest stated it was loaded with cookies. Sudan rarely, if ever, exports cookies. A heated debate

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Mercury has an atmospheric lifetime of around a year University of Oxford earth scientists report

Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)

Apr 5, 2022
2 min

Mercury 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 their knowledge to inform national and international policy on mercury, one of the most dangerous environmental pollutants. Mercury is extremely toxic and causes a range of serious health impacts including brain and neurological damage, especially among young people and unborn children. Mercury poses a particular ecological and human health

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Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)

Mar 23, 2022
2 min

Mercury Poisoning

| BRAIN & NERVOUS SYSTEM CENTER | Medical Author: Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD | | Medical Editor: William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR | What is Mercury Poisoning? Poisoning of humans can occur from inhalation, ingestion, or skin contact with the various forms of mercury. Mercury is an element that is found all over the earth, in soil, rocks, and water. Even trace amounts can be found in the air. The largest deposits on earth are as cinnabar (mercuric sulfide). Mercury e

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Amazon rainforest nears tipping point that may see it become savannah

Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)

Mar 15, 2022
2 min

Amazon 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 less resilient to drought since the early 2000s, with areas near humans and with lower rainfall being the worst hit An area deforested for gold mining, along the Interoceanic highway linking Peru and Brazil in the Amazon region of Madre de Dios. Mariana Bazo/REUTERS/Alamy The Amazon rainforest is nearing a tipping point that will see it tran

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Amazon rainforest reaching tipping point, researchers say

Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)

Mar 8, 2022
2 min

Amazon 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 approaching a tipping point - basically, a mass loss of trees," said Dr Chris Boulton of the University of Exeter. The Amazon contains between 90 and 140 billion metric tons of carbon The Amazon rainforest is moving towards a "tipping point" where trees may die off en masse, say researchers. A study suggests the world's largest rainforest i

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In a biodiversity haven, mining drives highest ever recorded levels of mercury

Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)

Mar 1, 2022
2 min

In 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 they found in the blood and fecal samples they collected might be causing disease. Or, she said, “It could just be the result of mercury toxicity because it’s so pervasive in that region.” The view from a drone shows the deforestation and pools left behind by mining in Madre de Dios. Image courtesy of Conservation X Labs. A recent study has fou

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From Wall Street to the Amazon: Big capital funds mining-driven deforestation

Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)

Feb 28, 2022
2 min

From 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 U.S. and Brazilian financial institutions continue to underwrite the destruction of the Amazon by financing mining companies pushing to operate in Indigenous territories, a new report says. The 20 institutional investors plowed a combined $54.1 billion into nine mining conglomerates — including giants Vale, Anglo American, Belo Sun, AngloGold A

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Wildfires Are Fueling a Toxic Combo of Air Pollutants

Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)

Jan 6, 2022
2 min

Wildfires Are Fueling a Toxic Combo of Air Pollutants

SCIENTIFIC AMERICA - POLLUTION The 2020 fire season subjected half the western U.S. population to a stew of particulate matter and ozone. By Chelsea Harvey, E&E News on January 6, 2022 Smoke fills the air over homes in Oakland, California, in September 2020. Credit: Michael Short/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Unseen dangers accompanied deadly flames in the record-breaking wildfire season that raged across the U.S. West in 2020. In addition to the millions of acres burned by the

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Alchemist

Dec 23, 2021
2 min

Merry Christmas-Feliz Navidad

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” - Mahatma Gandhi "La Tierra proporciona lo suficiente para satisfacer las necesidades de todos los hombres, pero no la codicia de todos." At this time of the year especially, be aware of the human health threats and global biodiversity destruction costs caused largely by artisanal ore processing facilities which use and vaporize 2,000 tonnes of mercury, a deadly neurotoxin, to our environment ann

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Alchemist

Dec 7, 2021
2 min

Environmental Impact of Salmon Farming

OneGreenPlanet By Yasmina Achlim Many omnivores may consider salmon a healthy part of their diet, but the reality is there is nothing healthy about how salmon is raised for food. About sixty percent of salmon consumed in the world come from farms. There are obvious ethical issues surrounding eating these fish, but the environmental impact of salmon farming's is particularly atrocious. A single pen can hold 200,000 salmon, which is incredibly polluting. Here’s what you need to

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With 280 prisoners dead in Ecuador, UN experts call for urgent action

Alchemist

Dec 7, 2021
2 min

With 280 prisoners dead in Ecuador, UN experts call for urgent action

6 December 2021 UN News Global perspective Human stories Human Rights Following a series of riots which have left more than 280 inmates dead and hundreds injured in Ecuadorian prisons this year, UN independent human rights experts on Monday called for urgent government action to address the issue. In a joint statement, the experts said they were “appalled and gravely concerned” by repeated riots that have resulted in the death of so many prisoners, and the “clear risk” of fur

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The Chlorpyrifos Ban Is a Win for Science—and Children

Alchemist

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

Alchemist

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

Alchemist

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

Alchemist

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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