The emissions of some reactive halogens – such as chlorine, bromine or iodine – are causing greater deposition of mercury in the places closest to these emissions, and people and ecosystems, including the most pristine ones, are increasingly exposed in those regions to that powerful neurotoxin. This has been verified by an international team of […]
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The US fines a company for the first time for debris in space
The authorities of USA have imposed a fine, the first of its kind, on a television satellites for having abandoned waste in spaceannounced the US telecommunications regulator. The operator Dish received a fine of US$150,000 for not having “exorbitant correctly” a satellite called EchoStar-7, in orbit since 2002, according to a statement from the Federal […]