UNEP takes first steps to control worldwide mercury releases

India takes steps to curb air pollution

India's air pollution problem needs to be tackled systematically, taking an all-of-government approach, to reduce the huge burden of associated ill-health. Patralekha Chatterjee reports.

Worldwide atmospheric mercury measurements

Worldwide atmospheric mercury measurements: a review and synthesis of spatial and temporal trends F. Sprovieri, N. Pirrone, R. Ebinghaus, H. Kock, and A. Dommergue Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Rende, Italy GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble 1/C...

First Steps to Judicial Reform

Introduction to Cyberspace: First Steps

Cyberspace: A word from the pen of William Gibson, science fiction writer, circa 1984. An unhappy word, perhaps, if it remains tied to the desperate, dystopic vision of the near future found in the pages of Neuromancer (1984) and Count Zero (1987)—visions of corporate hegemony and urban decay, of neural implants, of a life in paranoia and pain—but a word, in fact, that gives a name to a new sta...

Historical Mercury releases from commercial products: global environmental implications.

The intentional use of mercury (Hg) in products and processes ("commercial Hg") has contributed a large and previously unquantified anthropogenic source of Hg to the global environment over the industrial era, with major implications for Hg accumulation in environmental reservoirs. We present a global inventory of commercial Hg uses and releases to the atmosphere, water, soil, and landfills fro...