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Global Mercury Assessment

… recovery of the world’s ecosystems in future from mercury contamination. Global climate change may also complicate the … oxidation and reduction of mercury, but temperature and biological interactions are also likely to be involved to … Oxidized mercury in surface waters is reduced by biological and photochemical processes to the elemental form …
23 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Ridding the world of POPs - A guide to the Stockholm Convention on POPs

… against freezing temperatures. Consequently, the chemical contamination builds to higher levels in these organisms. … conditions and a multitude of physical, chemical, biological and man-made stressors including climate change, … conditions and a multitude of physical, chemical, biological and man-made stressors including climate change, …
23 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Vital Waste Graphics 3

… Chemical treatment Irradiation Thermal destruction Biological treatment PROJ- ECTED Recycling – finding the … Metal scrap is not generally hazardous in itself, but contamination with other hazardous substances is a recurrent … of the materials. Composting represents ‘the controlled biological decomposi- tion of organic material’ under …
23 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference: Book of abstracts

… Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Convention to Combat … mark a breakthrough in combating with desertification. Contamination of land in the oil mining regions of the … of planting and technical works and agro, chemo-, biological and fitomeliorations. Back to reproduce biomes - …
23 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

The Land in Numbers

… This decreases herbicide, nitrate and soluble phosphate contamination of surface waters (by 70%, 85% and 65% …
23 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

Handbook for the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and its Protocols

… processes during transmission; (f ) Physico-chemical and biological data relating to the effects of long-range … techniques such as thermal or catalytic incineration or biological treatment. 9. The monitoring of abatement … except dry cleaning using organic solvents to remove contamination from the surface of material, including …
23 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

Handbook for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

… the biosphere and how those effects relate to physical, biological and environmental processes; (b) Adverse effects …
23 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere