Molting seals add mercury to seawater, reveals study

Mercury, the most toxic metal, is easily absorbed and accumulated in marine organisms 

How smartphones are killing the planet

The energy used to build a single smartphone is equal to the energy required to operate it for about a decade

Fog can be deadly, says study

Fog water contains 20 times more monomethylmercury, the most neuro-toxic form of mercury, than rain water

MERCURY DISPUTE

Oil giant sued

Breached

Mercury can find its way to the brain, warn scientists

Amount of mercury in environment grossly underestimated

Quantity released in the environment since 1850 is over twice more than previously estimated, says a study

Nations renew commitment for Minamata Convention at UNGA meet

18 countries sign the treaty at a high-level meeting in New York

American thermal power plants under mercury regulation

US Environmental Protection Agency's mercury and air toxics standards will be effective from December 2014

Peru

THAILAND

Corn against mercury

Is Asia polluting the US?

Poison in Indian food

Toxic heavy metals found in indigenous people living near oil fields of Peruvian Amazon: Study

High levels of mercury, cadmium & arsenic were found in the urine samples of people living river basins of Corrientes, Pastaza, Tigre & …

Vietnam just recorded its highest-ever temperature

Not only Vietnam, but the entire world is experiencing this sudden rise in temperatures

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Lingering threat

Tribal trouble

Messing around with regulations

In the Parliament on March 11, 2016

Here’s a round-up of today’s debates and reports on environmental and developmental issues

Minamata Convention: India skips historic meet

Officials mum on why no official representative went from India

Malaysia

Silver lining

Rules abate mercury pollution

Protests over toxic gold mining at Nile: Will there be truce in Sudan

A vicious network of gold smuggling has over taken the region following the Russia-aided military coup in 2021