Inspectors at Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok Port found hundreds of individual containers of mercury hidden in carpets in a shipment ...

Despite the government of Zimbabwe's on-paper commitment to reduce and regulate the use of mercury in mining, the toxic metal remains pervasive and unfettered in the country's artisanal gold mining ...

Pregnant women in the Munduruku indigenous territory, in Pará state, have levels 4.5 times higher than the safe limit.

Zimbabwe’s formal commitment to reduce mercury use under the Minamata Convention stands in sharp contrast to the reality on ...

Ask any woman miner in the Katoro goldfield in Tanzania's northern Geita region, and she will tell you that she touches toxic mercury with her bare hands when extracting gold from crushed ore.Many ...

Environmental Protection Agency crews are on scene at a home on Carpenter Street in Northville, cleaning up after a mercury ...

We all rely on water for almost everything, yet it rarely comes up when the conversation shifts to the world’s most expensive ...

Ganymede has long looked like a contradiction in orbit. Jupiter’s largest moon is the only moon known to generate its own ...

Before Celeste Rodriguez joined the Assembly, California already was monitoring heavy metals in prenatal vitamins and baby ...

Zimbabwe's formal commitment to reduce mercury use under the Minamata Convention stands in sharp contrast to the reality on the ground. In mining areas, mercury is openly sold and used without ...

A prisoner awaiting trial at Yatala Labour Prison has allegedly been beaten over the head with a metal pole by a fellow ...