Blue foods play a central role in food and nutrition security for billions of people and are a
cornerstone of the livelihoods, economies, and cultures of many coastal and riparian …

Mercury pollution and its impacts on human health is of global concern. The authors of this
paper were members of the Plenary Panel on Human Health in the 12th International …

Governments, international agencies, NGOs, and academics focus their projects' objectives
on monitoring mercury pollution in Artisanal Gold Mining (AGM). Rarely do these monitoring …

An important provision of the Minamata Convention on Mercury is to monitor and evaluate
the effectiveness of the adopted measures and its implementation. Here, we describe for the …

Data concerning the occurrence of emerging biological contaminants such as antibiotic
resistance genes (ARGs) and fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) in aquatic environments in Sub …

In Senegal, the environmental impact of artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) using
mercury (Hg) is poorly documented despite its intensification over the past two decades. We …

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is an important livelihood activity in many low-and
middle-income countries. It is widely acknowledged that there are a myriad of health risk and …

The distribution patterns and sources of arsenic and trace metals (Cd, Pb, Cu, Zn, Cr, Co, Fe,
Al, Mn, and Ni) were investigated in wetland sediments that may be impacted by industrial …

In some locations, artisanal and small-scale gold-mining (ASGM) represents a significant
source of anthropogenic Hg to freshwater environments. The Hg released from ASGM can …

About nine million Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) workers in Africa and
people living near ASGM activities are highly exposed to geogenic and anthropogenic …