The Andean Community has ordered Peru to take immediate action against illegal gold mining and mercury trafficking. The ...

Ocean oxygen loss, not just mercury pollution, can trigger toxic methylmercury blooms that threaten marine life and seafood ...

Climate-driven oxygen loss in the Black Sea thousands of years ago triggered the expansion of microorganisms capable of ...

The heavy metal mercury exists in different forms, which include elemental mercury vapor that forms when fossil fuels and ...

A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river dolphins. They draw it ...

A Catholic bishop in Peru's Amazon is warning that mercury from illegal gold mining is contaminating rivers, fish and people ...

Heavy metals originate from multiple pathways: untreated industrial effluents, such as those from tanneries and mining ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced she is joining 17 other state attorneys general to oppose the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to repeal the ...

Toxicologist Yakubu Adam has warned that illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, is putting Ghanaians’ health at serious ...