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Treaty to cut mercury pollution signed by 92 countries
2013-10-23 15:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: A ground-breaking, legally-binding global treaty on reducing mercury pollution has been signed by 92 countries. The treaty spells "the beginning of the end of mercury as a threat to human health and the environment', UN Environment Programme (UNEP) executive director Achim Steiner, told a diplomatic meeting in Japan earlier this month (10-11 October) where the treaty was signed. But much work remains to provide the funding and technical and scientific advice needed to implement the treaty,...
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Portland Mercury: Coding for quakes - Novick's ready to fight for seismically safer buildings
2013-10-17 17:21:49| PortlandOnline
News story posted to portlandmercury.com October 16, 2013.
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Study links warmer water temperatures to greater levels of mercury in fish
2013-10-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Under the watchful eyes of scientists, a little forage fish that lives off the southern coast of Maine developed a strangely large appetite. Killifish are not usually big eaters. But in warmer waters, at temperatures projected for the future by climate scientists, their metabolism and their appetites go up, which is not a good thing if there are toxins in their food. In a lab experiment, researchers adjusted temperatures in tanks, tainted the killifishs food with traces of methylmercury and...
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10.09.13 -- Hair Testing Shows Worldwide Exposure To Mercury
2013-10-08 03:44:47| pollutiononline News Articles
10/09/13 Pollution Online Newsletter
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In Advance Of Treaty Adoption, Hair Testing Shows Worldwide Exposure To Mercury
2013-10-07 06:38:46| pollutiononline Home Page
Just prior to the adoption of a global treaty on mercury[i], a new Zero Mercury Working Group[ii] report[iii] highlights the importance of the treaty being ratified as soon as possible to reduce global pollution and exposure to mercury
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