News Coverage of MIT trip to mercury negotiations
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Noelle and ten MIT graduate students just returned from observing the final session of global negotiations for the Minimata Convention on mercury. Here is some news coverage of the event featuring our comments and observations:
Our blog: http://mit.edu/mercurypolicy
PBS NewsHour's Lunch in the Lab blog on the student blog: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/01/post-23.html
Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mercury-emissions-threaten-aquatic-environments
Chemistry World: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/01/mercury-limits-global-treaty-minamata-convention
Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-global-mercury-controls-20130118,0,3286036.story
Reuters AlertNet: Nations agree first global treaty to ban mercury emissions