How Worried Should You Be About Mercury in Your Tuna?
| CR Consumer Reports | By Lauren Kirchner | February 9, 2023 | CR tested canned tuna from BumbleBee, Chicken of the Sea, StarKist, and...
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- Feb 3
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How Illegal Mining Caused a Humanitarian Crisis in the Amazon.
| Yale Environment 360 | By: JONATHAN WATTS AND TALITA BEDINELLI | | February 02, 2023 | The onslaught of illegal miners into Indigenous...
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Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)
- Dec 22, 2022
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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...
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Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)
- Mar 15, 2022
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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...
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Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)
- Feb 28, 2022
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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...
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Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)
- Feb 25, 2022
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Peruvian gold rush turns pristine rainforests into heavily polluted mercury sinks
| Eurek Alert| Peer-Reviewed Publication | | Duke University | 28-Jan-2022 | Scientists record the highest levels of atmospheric mercury...
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Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)
- Feb 9, 2022
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The illegal Brazilian gold you may be wearing
| BBC News | Latin America & Caribbean | | February 02, 2022 | A special task force in Brazil is conducting raids deep in the Amazon, in...
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Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)
- Jan 6, 2022
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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....
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- Dec 23, 2021
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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...
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Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)
- Dec 21, 2021
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Amazon tribe suffers mercury contamination as illegal mining spreads
| Thomson Reuters Foundation | December 17, 2021 | | 7:54 am Education Latin America Gold | Nearly 60% of tested people in Munduruku...
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- Dec 18, 2021
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Experimental lake shows fish populations can recover quickly from mercury contamination
Lengthy experiment demonstrates potential benefits from cutting air pollution. Science 15 DEC 2021 12:20 PM BYERIK STOKSTAD Mercury...
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- Dec 14, 2021
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Congratulations Spain
Dec. 13, 2021 the Government of Spain deposited its instrument of ratification becoming the 137th Party to the #MinamataConvention on...
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- Dec 14, 2021
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Congratulations Australia
Dec. 7, 2021 the Government of Australia deposited its instrument of ratification becoming the 136th Party to the #MinamataConvention on...
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Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)
- Dec 3, 2021
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"It’s as if we’re in Mad Max’: warnings for Amazon as goldmining dredges occupy river"
| Guardian | | Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro | Wed 24 Nov 2021 17.04 GMT | “They’re making a gram of gold an hour down there,” one...
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- Nov 23, 2021
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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...
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- Nov 2, 2021
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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...
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- Oct 29, 2021
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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...
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- Oct 26, 2021
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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...
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- Oct 18, 2021
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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....
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- Oct 4, 2021
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congratulations Poland
Sept. 30, 2021 the Government of Poland deposited its instrument of ratification becoming the 135th Party to the #MinamataConvention on...
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