Heavy metal pollution
The most dangerous are: cadmium, lead, mercury that can be harmful to human health even in very low concentrations, as well as being highly toxic and non-degradable. They accumulate in those organisms that occupy the highest levels in the food pyramid: mercury pollution in the sea provokes the concentration of this metal in fish and the organisms that eat the fish, including men. Mercury that derives from the dumping of industrial waste and that reaches the sea is ever lasting and continues its cycle by passing from one organism to another through the food chain.
Special reports
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10 March 2006
Environment biotech
Biotechnology can be defined as the application of microbiology...
15 April 2014
How rich are we …. in blue gold?
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24 February 2016
Renewable energy in Italy
The Italian Company GSE, Gestore dei Servizi Energetici, periodically publishes...
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29 April 2013
Intruders in the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea has always been considered of fundamental importance...
10 February 2014
Coral turns pale!
The coral reef is one of the ecosystems with the richest biodiversity...
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10 March 2006
Environment biotech
Biotechnology can be defined as the application of microbiology...
15 April 2014
How rich are we …. in blue gold?
Water footprint, water availability and use on a planetary scale...
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24 February 2016
Renewable energy in Italy
The Italian Company GSE, Gestore dei Servizi Energetici, periodically publishes...
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10 March 2006
Environment biotech
Biotechnology can be defined as the application of microbiology...
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15 April 2014
How rich are we …. in blue gold?
Water footprint, water availability and use on a planetary scale...
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The “wave-swallowing” dragon
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Sea in love
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