| Eurek Alert| Peer-Reviewed Publication | | Duke University | 28-Jan-2022 | Scientists record the highest levels of atmospheric mercury...

UN News Global perspective Human stories 30 October 2021 Health Masami Ogata is a survivor of Minamata Disease, a debilitating illness...

Written by Elizabeth Boham, MD "Mercury can affect nearly all your organs, especially the brain, heart, kidneys, and gut, and many...

By Joanna Kedzierska "Levels of deforestation in Colombia have significantly increased in recent years due to logging by the legal mining...

On Aug 19, 2021 the Government of Bahrain deposited its instrument of ratification becoming the 133rd Party to the Minamata Convention on...

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...

In partnership with Fiocruz, CINCIA, and other institutions, WWF-Brazil has created the Mercury Observatory, which assembles studies and...

Globally, there’s an increasing shift of funds towards responsible and ethical investments, with 98% of institutional investors already...

| Journal of Cleaner Production | Volume 311, 15 August 2021, 127531 | | P. Torkamana, M. M. Veiga, L. R. P. de Andrade Lima, L .A....

This Challenge calls for innovative bioeconomy projects in the Amazon Forest that protect and restore biodiversity and ecosystem...

The harmful chemical has a unique quality: it can build up in our river systems over time Methylmercury poisonings in aquatic ecosystems...

#Ecuador Contamination #InPerspective. For decades the waters of the Calera River and the Yellow River have been contaminated due to the...

An overview of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) practices used in Portovelo, Ecuador. The short film shows how miners...

Alchemy Mining Group, Inc. (“AMGI”) an Innovation Provider to #MakeMercuryHistory in ASG miner's gold ore processing. "Profit proudly...

The city of Minamata, Japan, is dotted with monuments commemorating victims of an industrial mass poisoning decades ago. High in the...

Artisanal gold mining is known to cause high levels of mercury (Hg) contamination to human populations, due mainly to many miners burning...

LA RINCONADA, Peru (Reuters) - From the Andes mountains, thousands of artisanal gold-diggers for years sent fragments of metal to a Swiss...

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...

| Yahoo Entertainment UK | December 17, 2020 | | By Katie Archer | Robbie Williams has shared a fishy tale about his brush with death...