Category Archives: environmental

Fairfax, CA Mayor on the Environment

The Mayor of Fairfax in Northern California talks about environmental issues like recycling and waste managment, and discusses the environmental impact of plastics in the ocean. These are aspects of environmental health that every commmunity must solve on a local level.

Environmental Trends in Heavy Metal Exposure

An environmental project on toxic methyl-mercury ingestion released in February 2010 quantified the actual cost of toxic mercury emissions. Issued jointly by Norwegian and Swedish research institutes, the report estimates that if current trends continue, human and wildlife exposure will increase by 25%. The Scandinavian study estimates that damages to society worldwide, due [...]