Health

Environmental chemicals in breast milk and formula: Exposure and risk assessment implications

Human health risk assessment methods have advanced in recent years to more accurately estimate risks associated with exposure during childhood. However, predicting risks related to infant exposures to environmental chemicals in breast milk and formula remains challenging.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2018
Geniece M. Lehmann, Judy S. LaKind, Matthew H. Davi & et al
Environmental Health Perspectives
126
9
1-20
Tags:
Heavy Metals, Mercury, Breast Feeding, Infant Formula, Toxins, United States Of America (US), Dioxin, PCBs, Health Effects
Environment

Mercury remediation: NGT issues injunction against HUL

Asks Central Pollution Control Board to get expert opinion

Publication Date: 
06/08/2018
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Tamil Nadu, Industrial Pollution, Mercury, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Environmental Health, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Environment
Mining

Colombia bans the use of mercury in mining

Colombia’s government announced on July 16 that it has banned the use of mercury in all mineral extraction activities. By 2023 mercury will be entirely prohibited for industrial use.

Publication Date: 
02/08/2018
Mongabay
Tags:
Mining, Mercury, Colombia, Environment, Health Effects, Heavy Metals, Pollution
Water Pollution

Seal all hand pumps drawing mercury-laced water: NGT to UP

Meerut: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to seal all the hand pumps and bore wells which are drawing water contaminated with mercury in six districts of w

Publication Date: 
13/07/2018
Times Of India (Meerut)
Tags:
Uttar Pradesh, Groundwater Pollution, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Mercury, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Water Pollution
Environment

Kodaikanal Still Won't calls out environmental racism

In 2015, rapper Sofia Ashraf, social activist Nityanand Jayaraman and filmmaker Rathindran R Prasad came together to make a video, titled Kodaikanal Won’t, that hit out at Unilever for not cleaning

Publication Date: 
02/07/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Tamil Nadu, Kodaikanal, Mercury, Industrial Pollution, NGO, Environmental Health, Environment
Water Pollution

Chinese researchers use bacteria to remove toxic chemicals from water

BEIJING -- Escherichia coli, commonly known as E.

Publication Date: 
20/06/2018
China Daily
Tags:
Water Pollution, Water Pollution Control, China, Scientists, Mercury, Water Quality
Environment

Liberia: Investigation Into Cyanide Spillage Finds MNG Gold Liable of Polluting Bong County

Monrovia – A Turkish mining company operating in Bong County has been found liable for environmental degradation after “a catastrophic failure” of its tailing storage facility (TSF) on September 27

Publication Date: 
13/06/2018
Front Page Africa
Tags:
Environment, Mining, Industrial Pollution, Liberia, Hazardous Waste, Waste Disposal, Africa, Mercury, Lead, Health Effects
Environment

Mozambique: Government Aims to Eliminate Use of Mercury

Maputo — The Mozambican government intends to eliminate the use of Mercury in industry, artisanal mining and other sectors of activity by 2020, to protect human health from the effects of this high

Publication Date: 
29/05/2018
All Africa
Tags:
Environment, Mining, Mercury, Heavy Metals, Mozambique, Health Effects, Industrial Pollution, Africa
Pesticides And Toxins

A proposed global metric to aid mercury pollution policy

The Minamata Convention on Mercury entered into force in August 2017, committing its currently 92 parties to take action to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury. But how can we tell whether the convention is achieving its objective? Although the convention requires periodic effectiveness evaluation (1), scientific uncertainties challenge our ability to trace how mercury policies translate into reduced human and wildlife exposure and impacts.

Publication Date: 
11/05/2018
Noelle E. Selin
Science
607-609
Tags:
Mercury, Minamata Convention, Global Environmental Agreements, Atmosphere, Air Pollution, Water Pollution
Water Pollution

Government needs $400 million to clean Ankobra River

The government has estimated that $400 million will be needed to dredge and clean the heavy mercury content in the River Ankobra in the Western Region due to the activities of illegal small-scale m

Publication Date: 
16/04/2018
Ghana Web (Ghana)
Tags:
Water Pollution, River Pollution, Ghana, Mercury, Heavy Metals, Water Pollution Control, Africa

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