The government has been urged to revise the Minerals and Mining Act to deter the smuggling and use of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) across Ghana.Stakeholders say an effective ...

Illegal gold mining is spreading into new parts of Peru’s Amazon, advancing along remote rivers and into Indigenous ...

Mercury is a neurotoxic metal that can cause irreparable harm to human health – especially the brain development of young ...

The action could allow the plants to release more dangerous heavy metals, including brain-damaging mercury and cancer-causing ...

Today, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency finalized the repeal of the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, allowing coal- and oil-burning power plants to emit more mercury, ...

The move appeared to undercut the Make America Healthy Again movement led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a onetime campaigner ...

WEST VALLEY CITY — The state of Utah has sanctioned the employer of a man accused of leaving three disabled men in a running vehicle in a garage, resulting in their deaths from carbon monoxide ...

Four people, including two children, were found dead inside a Florida home on Friday night after possible carbon monoxide poisoning, deputies said. According to the Marion County Sheriff's Office, ...

OCALA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said four people were found dead Friday evening in a home in Ocala, and investigators suspect carbon monoxide poisoning. The sheriff’s office ...

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (ABC4) — New details in the case of a carbon monoxide poisoning in West Valley City that left three people dead on Friday have been released. Three men died in a carbon monoxide ...

Four people have died and three others have required liver transplants after eating the aptly named death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter. More than three ...

Mercury enters Pisces on Feb. 6 before its official retrograde later this month Prepare to feel everything before you can explain anything! On Feb. 6, Mercury will slip into Pisces, and conversations ...