OKLAHOMA CITY — Catch a large striped bass in the Broken Bow Reservoir and you might as well throw it back. The bass isn’t safe to eat, according to a Mercury in Fish study released Wednesday.
Sixteen state lakes have some species of fish with mercury levels above what is considered safe for unlimited consumption, according to the report released by the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality.
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Event 3 – Rev. Ch. 8 V 10 & 11
In the soil occur natural metals which are toxic to all life. These toxic metals are: Aluminium, Arsenic, Beryllium, Cadmium, Copper, Lead, Mercury and Nickel.
Under normal circumstances, they are quite harmless as they are bound into the geological structure of the earth; however, they are released in the presence of acid and then find their way into our natural drinking water resources.
Acid rain is already causing this effect to some degree, however, in a few years from now, given the amount of Nitrogen Oxide, Sulphur Dioxide and the massive amounts of Carbon Dioxide particularly from the burning vegetation as a result of the burning hail, acid rain will be strong enough to release these toxic metals in a big way. Read More / Watch Video »
NAIROBI (AFP) – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Sunday urged environment ministers meeting this week in Nairobi to adopt a strategy to curb the use of the highly toxic metal mercury.
“The world’s environment ministers meeting in Nairobi, Kenya this week can take a landmark decision to lift a global health threat from the lives of hundreds of millions of people,” UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said in a statement.
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WASHINGTON – Mercury contamination in rivers can spread to nearby birds, even ones that don’t eat fish or other food from the water. Researchers from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., found high levels of mercury in the blood of land-feeding songbirds living near the South River, a tributary of the Shenandoah, they report in Friday’s edition of the journal Science.
The South River was contaminated with industrial mercury sulfate from 1930 to 1950 and it remains under a fish consumption advisory. Read More / Watch Video »
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A heavy metal believed to be benign in the state’s coastal waters does in fact pose a threat to the health and survival of oysters, a University of North Carolina at Charlotte scientist says. The heavy metal cadmium, combined with warming coastal waters, can kill the shellfish or weaken their resistance to disease, according to research led by assistant biology professor Inna Sokolova and published this month in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
Oysters in North Carolina·s sounds are already in decline due to pollution, overfishing and damaged habitat. Read More / Watch Video »
OUAGADOUGOU, With signs that people are developing diseases linked to arsenic poisoning, the government said that it had turned off pumps to 11 deep-water wells in areas in the north of Burkina Faso.
“People were coming to our health centres with skin diseases in abnormally high numbers,” regional director for health in the north,
Moussa Dadjouari, told IRIN on Friday. “So we conducted investigations and found that it was linked to drinking water.”
Over the last two years officials from the ministry of agriculture and hydraulic resources found that the level of arsenic was often higher than 10 micrograms per litre, a threshold set by the World Health Organization (WHO). Short term symptoms of arsenic poising include vomiting, stomach aches and bloody diarrhoea, according to the minister of health. Read More / Watch Video »
Scientists looking for fish tainted by mercury found them in every fish and every river they sampled across the West, suggesting that pollution generated around the world is likely for at least some of it.
The survey of 2,707 fish randomly collected from 626 rivers in 12 states represents the biggest regional sampling yet of mercury in fish in the West, said Spencer A. Peterson, senior research ecologist EPA·s National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory in Corvallis.
Pictured the highly toxic Wormwood plant. Read More / Watch Video »
Video Report: Aftershocks continued on New Zealand’s South Island Sunday after a powerful quake struck in the early morning hours [...]
Video Report: A 7.4-magnitude earthquake has struck New Zealand’s South Island, causing widespread damage and power cuts.
Video Report: At least six people including two children have been killed in Mozambique during street protests over rising bread [...]
Video Report: There is alarm over plans to sell off Russia’s seed bank.
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