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

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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Why must Bolivia’s Ese ejja communities stop eating fish?

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Oct 29, 2021
3 min

Why must Bolivia’s Ese ejja communities stop eating fish?

Rocío Lloret Céspedes August 18, 2021 In the extreme west of Bolivia’s Beni department, north of the capital La Paz, Amazonian forests survive in an increasingly degraded state. This remote area, which borders Peru and Brazil, used to be a veritable paradise before the arrival of the gold rush in the 1980s. Women in two Amazonian villages have high levels of mercury in their blood and are advised to remove fish from their diets. But the state is not addressing the root causes

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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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Have Sumatran fishing crews found the fabled Island of Gold?

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Oct 25, 2021
2 min

Have Sumatran fishing crews found the fabled Island of Gold?

Treasures worth millions found in the last five years along the Musi River could be the site of the Srivijaya empire. Dalya Alberge Fri 22 Oct 2021 22.50 BST It was a fabled kingdom known in ancient times as the Island of Gold, a civilisation with untold wealth that explorers tried in vain to find long after its unexplained disappearance from history around the 14th century. The site of Srivijaya may finally have been found – by local fishing crews carrying out night-time div

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Rivers Dump Mercury into Coastal Fisheries

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Oct 22, 2021
2 min

Rivers Dump Mercury into Coastal Fisheries

Most of the pollutant arrives at the coasts by river By Elise Cutts | Scientific American November 2021 Issue Rivers may carry as much as 1,000 tons of mercury to the world’s coastlines every year, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. This would make rivers the main way this potent neurotoxin reaches coastal oceans, where it most threatens public health. Human mercury exposure is largely linked to coastal fisheries, where the heavy metal accumulates in marine life that we

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Landmark decision’ gives legal teeth to protect environmental defenders

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Oct 22, 2021
2 min

Landmark decision’ gives legal teeth to protect environmental defenders

22 October 2021 Human Rights A 46-strong group of countries across the wider European region has agreed to establish a new legally binding mechanism that would protect environmental defenders, the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) said on Friday. “I remain deeply concerned by the targeting of environmental activists”, said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, welcoming the rapid response mechanism as “an important contribution to help advance my Call to Action for Huma

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Mercury human health threats and biodiversity costs from this deadly global crisis - A Solution

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Oct 19, 2021
2 min

Mercury human health threats and biodiversity costs from this deadly global crisis - A Solution

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, October 17, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- NEWS PROVIDED BY Alchemy Mining Group Inc. October 18, 2021, 01:00 GMT Artisanal and small-scale gold (ASG) miners’ ore processing is the world’s largest anthropogenic source of deadly mercury pollution overtaking coal fired plants' mercury emissions in 2017. To make a sustainable change we, the Company, have initiated climate action in Ecuador’s Portovelo-Zaruma mining district 1,200 meters high up i

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Congratulations: Dr. Marcello Veiga Presents the Newlox Coexistence Model for Artisanal Mining

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Oct 18, 2021
2 min

Congratulations: Dr. Marcello Veiga Presents the Newlox Coexistence Model for Artisanal Mining

Vancouver, BC –The Newswire -14 October 2021– Newlox Gold Ventures Corp. (“Newlox” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Dr. Marcello Veiga, head of Newlox Research and Development Corp. recently made a keynote presentation at the United Nations’ Planet Gold Conference. Dr. Veiga described the Company’s Coexistence Model for Artisanal Mining, which seeks to improve outcomes for miners and the environment by providing miners with an environmentally and socially positiv

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Oct 4, 2021
1 min

congratulations Poland

Sept. 30, 2021 the Government of Poland deposited its instrument of ratification becoming the 135th Party to the #MinamataConvention on Mercury to #MakeMercuryHistory in Artisanal & small-scale gold miners (ASG) ore processing, the world's largest anthropogenic [man-caused] source of deadly mercury pollution. Are you aware about this global deadly mercury crisis and the human and biodiversity costs? Approximately 18 - 20 million impoverished artisanal and small-scale gold (AS

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Oct 1, 2021
1 min

congratulations Iraq.

Sept. 16, 2021 the Government of Iraq deposited its instrument of ratification becoming the 134th Party to the #MinamataConvention on Mercury to #MakeMercuryHistory in Artisanal & small-scale gold miners (ASG) ore processing, the world's largest anthropogenic [man-caused] source of deadly mercury pollution. Are you aware about this global deadly mercury crisis and the human and biodiversity costs? Approximately 18 - 20 million impoverished artisanal and small-scale gold (ASG)

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Rivers Are Largest Global Source of Mercury in Coastal Oceans.

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Oct 1, 2021
1 min

Rivers Are Largest Global Source of Mercury in Coastal Oceans.

BY GEOFFREY GILLER ’14 MESC Yale School of the Environment Ten rivers are responsible for half of the riverine mercury entering the world's oceans — with the Amazon River, the Ganges, and the Yangtze topping the list. Are you aware about this global deadly mercury crisis and the human and biodiversity costs? Approximately 18 - 20 million impoverished artisanal and small-scale gold (ASG) miners all largely having undiagnosed mercury poisonings in ~ 80 countries dangerously toi

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Complete eradication of mercury in mining not possible, GGMC Commissioner says

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Sep 8, 2021
1 min

Complete eradication of mercury in mining not possible, GGMC Commissioner says

By David Papannah and Laurel Sutherland As the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) continues to pursue the goal of achieving reduced mercury use in mining, Commissioner Newell Dennison has signaled that complete eradication of the chemical in local mining activities may not be possible. Dennison told Sunday Stabroek that many artisanal miners are unable to access financing to transition into mercury-free mining. This means that the use of the chemical will always be se

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AIR QUALITY LIFE INDEX® | SEPTEMBER 2021 Annual Update

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Sep 2, 2021
2 min

AIR QUALITY LIFE INDEX® | SEPTEMBER 2021 Annual Update

By Ken Lee and Michael Greenstone Click to Read the Report SUMMARY Climate Change is Exacerbating Air Pollution. Air Pollution is a Global Health Threat. The Greatest Impacts of Air Pollution Remain Concentrated in South Asia. Southeast Asia Shares the Air Pollution Burden. Air Pollution Rivals Communicable Diseases in Central and West Africa. More than Half of Latin Americans are Breathing Polluted Air. China is Winning its “War Against Pollution”. Decades of Reducing Pollut

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Air pollution is cutting more years from people's lives than smoking, war or HIV/AIDS

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

Sep 1, 2021
2 min

Air 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 driven by the use and production of fossil fuels creating "a global problem that requires strong policies at every front." In countries where air pollution levels are below standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO), people are, on average, losing 2.2 years of their lives. India has the highest levels of air pollution globally and its

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How To Tell If Mercury Toxicity Is The Cause Of Your Mysterious Symptoms

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Aug 31, 2021
1 min

How To Tell If Mercury Toxicity Is The Cause Of Your Mysterious Symptoms

Written by Elizabeth Boham, MD "Mercury can affect nearly all your organs, especially the brain, heart, kidneys, and gut, and many chronic diseases may be caused or worsened by mercury, including neurologic disease, ADHD, autism, heart disease, autoimmune diseases, and more." Approximately 18 million Artisanal and small-scale gold (ASG) miners in ~ 80 Countries all largely have undiagnosed mercury poisoning from processing ore to produce 20% of the world's gold supply for you

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Legal mining deforested over 120,000 hectares in Colombia within less than one decade

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Aug 23, 2021
1 min

Legal mining deforested over 120,000 hectares in Colombia within less than one decade

By Joanna Kedzierska "Levels of deforestation in Colombia have significantly increased in recent years due to logging by the legal mining industry and those numbers may further increase." DID YOU KNOW Mercury penetrates the blood placenta barrier? Mercury penetrates the blood brain barrier? Mercury is a precursor to the microbial production of Methylmercury an even deadlier neurotoxin than elemental mercury, and with unknown biomagnification effects. Artisanal and small-scal

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Aug 20, 2021
2 min

Congratulations Bahrain!

On Aug 19, 2021 the Government of Bahrain deposited its instrument of ratification becoming the 133rd Party to the Minamata Convention on mercury to #MakeMercuryHistory in Artisanal & small-scale gold (ASG) miner's ore processing. Approximately 18 million impoverished ASG miner’s all largely having undiagnosed mercury poisoning process ore in ~80 Countries including ~4.5 million women and ~600,000 children under the age of 15. ASG miners are collectively responsible for the a

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Mercury: Get This Heavy-Metal Poison Out of Your Body

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Aug 16, 2021
1 min

Mercury: Get This Heavy-Metal Poison Out of Your Body

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 metals–like mercury. Unfortunately, toxic mercury problems are common. Along with polar bears, beluga whales, ducks, otters, panthers, and all river fish as well as most large ocean fish, we humans are poisoning ourselves with mercury at ever increasing rates. About: Alchemy Mining Group, Inc. (“AMGI”) An Innovation Provider to #MakeMercuryHis

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Zarumeños call for remediation and control actions on illegal mining

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Aug 13, 2021
1 min

Zarumeños call for remediation and control actions on illegal mining

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 about 50 meters, the population of the Zaruma canton demands an immediate response from the local and national authorities to comply with the remediation in the orense locality. About: Alchemy Mining Group, Inc. (“AMGI”) An Innovation Provider to #MakeMercuryHistory in ASG miner's gold ore processing. Bruce A. Cosgrove, B.Sc., M.Sc., (Solutio

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Aug 10, 2021
1 min

Mercury Observatory

In partnership with Fiocruz, CINCIA, and other institutions, WWF-Brazil has created the Mercury Observatory, which assembles studies and information on mercury contamination in the Pan-Amazon region and displays results on a georeferenced platform. Mapping gold mining impacts in the Amazon About: Alchemy Mining Group, Inc. (“AMGI”) An Innovation Provider to #MakeMercuryHistory in ASG miner's gold ore processing. Bruce A. Cosgrove, B.Sc., M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry) Pres./C.E.

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