Tag: fish

Toxic mercury in fish rising

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Toxic mercury in fish rising
Increasing levels of toxic mercury in cod and tuna can cause neurological disorders in children and babies whose mothers eat fish while pregnant, a study by Harvard scientists said. The concentration of methylmercury – an organic compound which can cause severe damage to the brain and nervous system – rose by 23% in cod and by 27% in bluefin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean’s Gulf of Maine over about three decades, it said.… Read the rest

The Biggest Threat To Life On Earth May Be A Substance That Is Found Here Naturally

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The Biggest Threat To Life On Earth May Be A Substance That Is Found Here Naturally
This Natural Substance Could Be The Biggest Threat To Life As We Know It–And It Is On The Periodic Table It seems like every week there’s some new (or old) threat to human life and health and the planet’s ability to survive. From CFCs to PCBs to BPAs to god knows what horrible thing they will invent next, it seems like we are under siege from a constant alphabet soup barrage of letters threatening to kill us.… Read the rest

Global Fisheries Are Collapsing–What Happens When There Are No More Fish?

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Global Fisheries Are Collapsing–What Happens When There Are No More Fish?
Shocking Study Shows That 85 Percent Of Global Fish Stocks Are In Trouble–So Are We If This Continues. In the Dr. Seuss book “The Lorax,” the title character, saddened by the destruction of all the truffula trees and the devastation covering the now-barren land “lifted himself away through a hole in the clouds.” One wonders if the global elites have some similar escape plan in mind that they’re not telling the rest of us about.… Read the rest