The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.
The results appear in a paper published on-line November 28th in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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Looking for a good way to consume a higher daily dose of lead, arsenic, and cadmium? Try smoking Chinese cigarettes.
According to a Reuters report, a recent tobacco study conducted by researchers from the Buffalo-based Roswell Park Cancer Institute found that cigarettes produced in China contain three times the amount of heavy metals found in Canadian-manufactured brands.
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Abandoned mines in Romania leach water contaminated by heavy metals into rivers. A Hungarian chemical plant produces more than 100,000 tonnes of toxic substances a year. Soil in eastern Slovakia is contaminated with cancer-producing PCBs.
The flood of toxic sludge in Hungary is but one of the ecological horrors that lurk in Eastern Europe 20 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, serving as a reminder that the region is dotted with disasters waiting to happen.
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Video Report: Farmers in Kogan on Queensland’s Darling Downs say contamination from the coal gasification trials has spread to their waterways. Mercury is not used in the gasification process.
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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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Johannesburg — JOHANNESBURG Water was concerned about the possibility of acid mine drainage flooding the city’s central business district, but there were potential solutions, the utility’s chairman said yesterday.
Last week the parliamentary portfolio committee on water and environmental affairs was warned that the central basin of the Witwatersrand – a geological area situated below Johannesburg – could flood within 18 months, raising the possibility of polluted mine water flooding the city. Read More / Watch Video »
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Up to 77 million people in Bangladesh have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from drinking water in recent decades, according to a Lancet study.
The research assessed nearly 12,000 people in a district of the capital Dhaka for over a period of 10 years.
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Alarmingly high levels of deadly toxic metals in Grahamstown’s tap water has scientists worried about the future health of residents who drink municipal water.
According to recently released research, drinking a litre of Settler City tap water a day for three months could lead to severe lead and mercury poisoning. Cadmium poisoning could become a reality after six months and aluminium and arsenic poisoning after one year.
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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 »
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Event 8 – Rev. Ch. 16 V 1 – 2
Due to the events that have already taken place, we have seen a massive build up of Sulphuric acid and Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
This in turn has increased the strength of acid rain and lowered the pH value of the soil, it has also released further toxic metals to the point where the soil can no longer support the growing of crops particularly fruit and vegetables.
A famine of fruit and vegetables means that people will develop Scurvy. Read More / Watch Video »
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Five years ago, James Lovelock’s “The Revenge of Gaia” issued a terrifying warning: if humankind didn’t radically curtail greenhouse-gas emissions, there would, quite literally, be hell to pay.
His new book out this year, “The Vanishing Face of Gaia,” says it has now become bleakly apparent that we blew our chance.
Researchers from a broad swathe of disciplines are strangely ill at ease when asked about fellow scientist James Lovelock, whose improbable career has just entered its seventh decade.
Chemists, biologists, climatologists and physicists are all quick to reach for superlatives: “brilliant”, “ahead of his time”, a “renaissance scientist” in an age of ultra-specialisation. Read More / Watch Video »
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Video Report: Swine Flu vaccine has been found to contain the toxic metal Mercury
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Locusts have always been a problem but never to the degree that they are today. As temperatures have increased, Locusts have moved with the climate and are now causing havoc as far north in Europe as France.
When faced with a shortage of crops to eat, Locusts have been known to eat the carcasses of other Locusts and failing that, they have been known to eat the clothes of people’s backs.
The Locusts in Revelation Chapter 9 for 2,000 years have defied explanation until now. Read More / Watch Video »
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Video Report: 300 children sick with lead poisoning in China.
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China has closed a factory in its northwest which is suspected of causing lead poisoning in more than 300 children, state media said on Wednesday.
China’s pollution and lax product safety standards have long been a source of tension and unrest, particularly when parents or residents of pollution hotspots — dubbed “cancer villages” because of high rates of the disease — feel their worries are being ignored.
The sick children all live near the Changqing industrial park in Shaanxi province and parents have pointed at a lead and zinc smelting plant inside. Read More / Watch Video »
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Climate change will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, The New York Times reported.
Citing military and intelligence analysts, the newspaper said climate-induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilize entire regions.
Analysts, experts at the Pentagon and intelligence agencies for the first time are taking a serious look at the national security implications of climate change, the report said.
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