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					<title>Women in small-island states exposed to high levels of mercury: study</title>
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					<pubDate>27 Nov 2018 11:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Women of childbearing age from small-island states and countries have been found to have toxic levels of mercury, a potent neurotoxin that can harm unborn children, a new report shows. The study took hair samples from 757 women between the ages of 18 and 44 years from across the Pacific, the Caribbean and the Indian [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Women of childbearing age from small-island states and countries have been found to have toxic levels of mercury, a potent neurotoxin that can harm unborn children, a new report shows. The study took hair samples from 757 women between the ages of 18 and 44 years from across the Pacific, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. Nearly 60 percent of them were found to have mercury levels of more than one part per million, or 1 ppm — the threshold above which brain damage, IQ loss, and kidney and cardiovascular damage can occur, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The mercury level associated with the onset of fetal neurological damage is lower, at 0.58 ppm, and the number of women whose hair samples exceeded that level for mercury was 75 percent, the study found. The researchers used hair samples from women ages 18 to 44 to analyze the mercury levels in their bodies. Image courtesy of IPEN. The study, published Nov. 19, was carried out by scientists from the nonprofit Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) and IPEN, a global coalition of health and environmental groups. They took hair samples from women in 21 countries and territories — including Fiji, Barbados, Comoros, Sri Lanka, and the U.S. islands of Molokai in Hawaii and Saint Lawrence in Alaska — where industrialization remains low and the population relies on local fisheries as a major source of dietary protein. “The highest level found in the sampling that can be confirmed was over 20&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/women-in-small-island-states-exposed-to-high-levels-of-mercury-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Island nations say climate treaty should be completed in 2011</title>
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					<pubDate>29 Nov 2010 02:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), making up 42-island and low-lying coastal nations, has told Reuters that a deadline should be set for the UN climate treaty to be completed by 2011. After a disappointing meeting in Copenhagen last year and the low expectations for the up-coming climate change conference in Cancun, the AOSIS [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), making up 42-island and low-lying coastal nations, has told Reuters that a deadline should be set for the UN climate treaty to be completed by 2011. After a disappointing meeting in Copenhagen last year and the low expectations for the up-coming climate change conference in Cancun, the AOSIS says a hard deadline should be set for 2011. &#8220;In the case of climate, emergency requires speed,&#8221; AOSIS chair Dessima Williams of Grenada told Reuters. Other nations, including the US, are wary of setting a binding time-limit to complex negotiation. AOSIS is also calling for a target to limit warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times. The Group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) also support this goal. However, last year nations agreed on the less-ambitious goal of below 2 degrees Celsius in the Copenhagen Accord. AOSIS nations view themselves as especially vulnerable to climate change given rising seas, worsening tropical storms, and coral reef decline. After meeting in Cancun over the next two weeks, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will move next to Durban, South Africa in 2011. Related articles 2009 carbon emissions higher than expected (11/22/2010) Despite a global economic recession and ongoing concerns about the impacts of climate change, last year&#8217;s global carbon emissions were the second highest on record, according to the Global Carbon Project (GCP). Emissions in 2009 were just below the record emissions of 2008. In addition, 2009 emissions were higher than predicted, falling by&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/11/island-nations-say-climate-treaty-should-be-completed-in-2011/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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