Tag archives for Mercury
Coal-fired power plants: growing source of mercury emission in Pakistan
MERCURY IS attractively beautiful, but a toxic heavy metal that triggers brain damage; effects immune and reproductive system; exclusively harmful to developing fetuses; and cause heart problems. Less than one…
Govt urged to stop dental mercury amalgam use
STAFF REPORT ISB: More than 137 civil society organizations, including SDPI, Islamabad, individuals and professionals from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Thailand have signed a declaration calling…
Check on mercury amalgam stressed to save environment
MONITORING REPORT ISB: Mercury emitted from dental amalgam badly affects human beings, aquatic and terrestrial animals, micro-organisms, plants and the entire environment, said Dr. M. Khawaja from…
SDPI report hints at high mercury pollution
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) has recently launched its recent research report revealing extremely higher levels of mercury pollution in air at some sites, that exceeds…
Mercury pollution exceeds safety level at dental clinics
STAFF REPORT IBD: Recent study by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) reveals high level of indoor mercury pollution in the air inside various dental hospitals in Rawalpindi and #xA0; study,…
Medical staff sensitised on mercury systems
STAFF REPORT IBD: Some dental teaching hospitals, indoor mercury levels are found to be 15 - 20 times higher than the permissible limit for human health. Mercury contamination measurements have…
Mercury pollution measurement sys launched
STAFF REPORT IBD: Pakistans first ever project to measure mercury pollution in the air has recently been launched in the collaborative project started by SDPI, European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and…
Environment experts fear mercury pollution rising
STAFF REPORT IBD: Widespread global mercury contamination of seafood and health effects from methyl-mercury in seafood occurring below the level that was considered "safe" just a few years ago, says…
SDPI for legally binding global deals on toxic mercury
STAFF REPORT IBD: World leaders at IUCNs "Global Conservation Congress 2012", should support legally binding treaty on mercury to protect health, environment and ecosystem from hazardous and toxic mercury, said…