Artisanal small-scale miners mercury ore processing for jewellery, and electronics gold.
Did you know the Tuna fish caught in the Pacific Ocean contains #mercury discharged from 87 Chilean mercury cyanidation gold ore &...
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- May 26, 2021
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Marine fog inputs appear to increase methylmercury bioaccumulation in a coastal terrestrial food web
Coastal marine atmospheric fog has recently been implicated as a potential source of ocean-derived monomethylmercury (MMHg) to coastal...
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- May 26, 2021
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Mercury Emissions: The Global Context
Exposure to mercury threatens our health, with many often irreversible toxic effects. Developing fetuses and young children are most at risk
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- May 21, 2021
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How mercury sneaks into the most vulnerable communities in US and Canada
The harmful chemical has a unique quality: it can build up in our river systems over time Methylmercury poisonings in aquatic ecosystems...
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- Feb 11, 2021
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Minamata disease (Japanese) is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning
Minamata disease paralyzes the human central nervous system and causes birth defects.
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- Feb 11, 2021
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More than 95 percent of all mercury in fish is methylmercury, and this form of mercury biomagnifies
Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that can affect the human nervous system. Eating fish contaminated with mercury can cause serious harm to...
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- Feb 10, 2021
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DESCARGA DE RELAVES CONTAMINA LAS AGUAS DEL RÍO CALERA - AL OTRO LADO DE LA FRONTERA SE SUFREN...
DESCARGA DE RELAVES CONTAMINA LAS AGUAS DEL RÍO CALERA - AL OTRO LADO DE LA FRONTERA SE SUFREN LAS CONSECUENCIAS...
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- Feb 10, 2021
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ECUADOR TAILINGS DISCHARGE POLLUTES THE CALERA RIVER WATERS - IN PERU THE CONSEQUENCES ARE SUFFERING
#Ecuador Contamination #InPerspective. For decades the waters of the Calera River and the Yellow River have been contaminated due to the...
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- Feb 10, 2021
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Portovelo-Zaruma Artisanal Mining: Poverty Driven Destruction
An overview of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) practices used in Portovelo, Ecuador. The short film shows how miners...
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- Feb 10, 2021
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Air pollution kills 600,000 children each year according to the WHO.
Exposure to toxic air both indoors and out kills some 600,000 children under the age of 15 each year, the World Health Organization...
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- Feb 10, 2021
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Air pollution’s devastating impact on children’s health
Every day around a staggering 93% of the world’s children under the age of 15 years breathes air that is so polluted it puts their health...
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- Feb 10, 2021
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Toxic air will shorten children's lives by 20 months, study reveals.
The life expectancy of children born today will be shortened by 20 months on average by breathing the toxic air that is widespread across...
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- Feb 9, 2021
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Children of the poisoned river
Half a century after mercury contamination near Grassy Narrows First Nation, the poisoning continues to have deadly consequences —...
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- Feb 9, 2021
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Portovelo-Zaruma Artisanal Miners March for Better Working Conditions
Alchemy Mining Group, Inc. (“AMGI”) an Innovation Provider to #MakeMercuryHistory in ASG miner's gold ore processing. "Profit proudly...
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- Feb 7, 2021
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Mysterious chemical found in dead cat’s brain reopens debate over mercury poisoning disaster
The city of Minamata, Japan, is dotted with monuments commemorating victims of an industrial mass poisoning decades ago. High in the...
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- Jan 23, 2021
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Microplastics Found in Placentas of Pregnant Women
New research published in the journal Environment International found evidence of microplastics in the human placenta. Researchers called...
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- Jan 15, 2021
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Mercury (II) Binding Activity of Vegetable and Fruit Juices: Identifying Potential Detoxifying Juice
| CRIMSON PUBLISHERS | June 18, 2018 | University of British Columbia | | Eduardo Jovel, Zyta Abramowski, Elena Pakalnis, Bruce Marshall,...
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- Jan 15, 2021
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Special Report: Sleeping Beauty - How suspect gold reached top brands
LA RINCONADA, Peru (Reuters) - From the Andes mountains, thousands of artisanal gold-diggers for years sent fragments of metal to a Swiss...
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- Jan 15, 2021
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Trading mercury
In 2012, the global trade in mercury reached a peak of US$210 million. Four thousand and forty tonnes of the element—used in everything...
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- Jan 15, 2021
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Air pollution can reach the placenta around a developing baby
A study of women in Belgium found black carbon particles, or soot, within the organ. Breathing in polluted air may send soot far beyond a...
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