Amazon and eBay accused of selling cosmetics containing mercury
As they enter the holiday shopping season, online marketplaces Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc. are fending off reports about products with high mercury levels being sold on their websites in more evidence that the convenience of online shopping can come with product safety risks. Activist ...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and European Space Agency launched twin Mercury probes on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana on Oct. 19.
Man arrested for lacing former employee's tobacco with mercury over pay dispute
The 36-year-old was arrested on suspicion of trying to kill his acquaintance with heat-not-burn tobacco laced with mercury. The victim was rushed to hospital with headaches, coughing and slurred speech.
An international anti-mercury pollution treaty will now go into force on Aug. 16 as the necessary number of countries have approved it, the secretariat of the pact said Thursday. Romania has joined the Minamata Convention on Mercury, becoming the 50th country to do so and ...
Excessive mercury found in air samples from new wholesale market
Mercury at 5 to 7 times the national standard was found in air samples in the basement of a building at the market built to replace the Tsukiji fish market.
Seminar seeks to shine spotlight on mercury-linked Minamata disease
Victims, researchers and academics will on Saturday gather in Bangkok for a seminar marking the 60th anniversary since the discovery of mercury poisoning malady Minamata disease. To be held at Chulalongkorn University, speakers will include Shinobu Sakamoto, a Kumamoto Prefecture native who contracted Minamata disease, ...
Sixty years on, justice eludes Minamata residents poisoned with mercury
In the early 1970s, when the country was gripped by student unrest, it was the sight of a sit-in by Minamata disease sufferers outside the headquarters of Chisso Corp. in central Tokyo that gave high schooler Yuta Jitsukawa his cause. The chemicals company had dumped ...
Japan on Tuesday became the 23rd country to join the Minamata Convention on Mercury, an international pollution treaty on the toxic metal that requires approval by 50 countries for it to take effect. The convention describes mercury as "a chemical of global concern." It aims ...
Earth believed protected by magnetic field starting much earlier than previously thought
Earth's magnetic field has been a life preserver, protecting against relentless solar winds, streams of charged particles rushing from the sun, that otherwise could strip away the planet's atmosphere and water. "It would be a pretty barren planet without it," said University of Rochester geophysicist ...
Mercury's magnetic field switched on billions of years ago, NASA craft finds
New results from NASA's now-defunct Messenger spacecraft show Mercury's magnetic field switched on about 4 billion years ago, scientists said Thursday. Messenger spent four years orbiting Mercury before it ran out of fuel and crashed into the planet's surface on April 30. For several months before ...
NASA's pioneering Messenger spacecraft ended its four-year study of the planet Mercury on Thursday by crashing into the planet's surface, scientists said. Flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland earlier estimated that Messenger, traveling at more than 8,700 mph (14,000 ...
A NASA spacecraft that made surprising discoveries of ice and other materials on Mercury will crash on the planet around April 30, scientists said on Thursday. The Mercury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER, probe has been circling the innermost planet of the ...
