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.

When you buy fish at the store, you might have protein and healthy fats on your mind. However, the specter of mercury ...

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 ...

An outback town's hospital, service station and school were affected when students discovered vials of mercury at the tip. Experts have explained why specialists have spent days doing testing in ...

A novel show-and-tell item found at the local tip has effectively frozen daily life in the Queensland town while emergency ...

Scientists have discovered Amazonian bacteria capable of combating mercury contamination in areas affected by toxic mining.

While atmospheric mercury (Hg) emissions have sharply declined in Europe since the 1970s thanks to environmental policies, climate change could disrupt this trend in high mountain regions. A study ...

Gold has become a major source of funding for Sudan’s treasury after the country lost over two-thirds of its oil revenues with the secession of South Sudan in 2011. The precious ...