Sentences with phrase «about mercury pollution»
While environmentalists have worried about mercury pollution for years, at least one recent study suggests that as mercury pollution from power plants has decreased, mercury contamination in bluefish has decreased too.
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Through the Policy Lab, Selin is drafting a briefing about her research to share with policymakers charged with implementing the Minamata Convention, a global treaty addressing mercury pollution.
More than half said they don't warn about mercury, and hardly any of them give advice about lead, pesticides, air pollution or chemicals in plastics or cosmetics.
Scientists have long understood that the Arctic is affected by mercury pollution, but know less about how it happens.
About 40 percent of all mercury exposure in the United States comes from Pacific tuna that has been touched by pollution.
The calculations suggest that the ocean contains about 60,000 to 80,000 tons of mercury from pollution, with almost two - thirds residing in water shallower than a thousand meters, the team reports online today in Nature.
In 2008 about half the area of all rivers and lakes were under water contamination advisories, 80 % of which was due to mercury pollution.
It is also clear that particulate, sulfate and mercury pollution from coal are about as healthy as a three pack a day habit and that there is humongous excess mortality, in the UK and US during the early to mid part of the last century and in China, India and the rest of the developing world now and into the future.
Check out these informative videos that 2009 Goldman Prize recipient Yuyun Ismawati shared with us to find out more about the global issue of mercury pollution.