The UN estimated that some three-fourths of all e-waste didn't enter recycling streams, leaving an estimated $62 billion in ...

A global mercury conference in Geneva faced sharp criticism Friday from environmental and Indigenous groups for failing to ...

Countries at Minamata Convention COP-6 in Geneva agreed to phase out mercury dental amalgam by 2034. The deal includes ...

Countries agreed Friday to phase out the use of mercury-based dental amalgams in tooth fillings by 2034, in a move that will ...

Ban on mercury in dental fillings is a positive step. But small-scale gold mining will remain the largest global contributor to mercury pollution without ...

Parties to the UN Minamata Convention on Mercury met this week to discuss illegal trade, gold-mining pollution, and other ...

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed —Mahatma Gandhi   A few months ago, I was privileged to be part of a “selected group” to help develop and launch a ...

In 1992, Sydney Possuelo, then the head of Brazil's indigenous affairs agency Funai, led an operation to evict thousands of ...

CAIRO (AP) — In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, ...

Multiple countries including the United States called Monday for a worldwide ban on mercury-based dental amalgams by 2030, at ...

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, UNEP Deputy Executive Director, stated that the Minamata Convention is driving global mercury ...

Soaring international gold prices are driving up the price of mercury, a toxic metal key in illegal gold mining, to all-time ...