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Living atop a hill in Malindza, a tiny county in eSwatini’s lush east, 56-year-old Ntombi Ndzimandze is the matriarch of her household of 11 women and children. At the beginning of the year, two of Ndzimandze’s …
Waste management is a persistent problem in El Salvador, where about a quarter of waste is discarded into rivers or other natural areas untreated. This is a particular issue for hazardous chemicals like mercury…
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is an organochlorine substance which was first synthesized in 1874 but its insecticidal properties were discovered in 1939. DDT has historically been one of the most widely…
If you’re reading this from a city in a high-income country, you have about a one in two chance of breathing in air that exceeds World Health Organization guidelines for air pollution. That’s worrying enough, but…
Izabella Teixeira, Co-chair International Resource Panel Ministers Lövin of Sweden and Minister de León of Uruguay, Co-chairs of the High Ambition Alliance Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen Chemicals are an…
What are we monitoring? The UNEP/GEF Projects on continuing Regional Support for the Global Monitoring Plan monitors the presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the environment and humans. POPs are hazardous chemicals that threaten human…
When Omar Itani couldn’t find anywhere to dispose his second-hand clothes, he set a chain of events in motion that he could never have imagined. Making the decision not to contribute to Lebanon’s landfill, he…
David Kapindula, President of the Third Conference of Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury Marc Chardonnens, State Secretary, Federal Office for Environment, Switzerland, Host of the Minamata Secretariat…
Behind a family home not far from downtown Apia, a small mountain of computer cases teeters in the tropical sun at over 3 metres high. Nearby, stacks of thousands of circuit boards create rolling green foothills.…
The Montreal Protocol to protect the Earth’s ozone layer is to date the only United Nations environmental agreement to be ratified by every country in the world. It is also one of the most successful. With the…
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