A TOXICS watchdog group reiterated its call for concerted action to break the illegal trade of imported skin-lightening products contaminated with mercury already banned in the Philippines. The ...

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

Whether you’re playing pickup hockey or gliding around on the ice with your family, it’s best to wear quality ice skates.

Saturday, December 21 is the shortest day of the year so we thought it would be a good time to appreciate the history of ...

This is one in a series looking at what Northeast Ohio communities, school districts and organizations experienced in 2024 and what is facing them in 2025. The completion of a sanitary sewer ...

This involves boiling off the mercury, releasing toxic mercury vapour into the environment. This can significantly reduce the life expectancies of people exposed to the resulting pollution ...

Rockefeller Center is proposing to rip out its glowing glass signage in favor of LEDs. It joins a heap of others.

Symptoms of elemental mercury vapor inhalation include difficulty breathing, vomiting, and headaches; for this reason, mercury is now less commonly used as an industrial method of gold extraction.

This study reveals that female moths utilize ultrasonic sounds emitted by dehydrated plants to inform their oviposition decisions, highlighting sound as a potential sensory cue for optimal host plant ...

The mercury sulfide would easily decompose and produce mercury vapor (plus sulfur). The mercury vapor could be condensed on the walls of a cold test tube as metallic beads, making it easy to collect.