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- Minamata disease is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning. Signs and symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general...61 KB (7,988 words) - 00:52, 4 June 2024
- Minamata is a 2020 biographical drama film directed by Andrew Levitas, based on the book of the same name by Aileen Mioko Smith and W. Eugene Smith. The...27 KB (2,408 words) - 22:28, 15 June 2024
- Minamata (水俣市, Minamata-shi) is a city located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. It is on the west coast of Kyūshū and faces Amakusa islands. Minamata was...41 KB (4,269 words) - 23:21, 15 April 2024
- Tunnel Disaster, near Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, United States. Over several years, 476 workers died from silicosis. 1932–1968: The Minamata disaster was...84 KB (9,484 words) - 03:38, 25 June 2024
- Minamata Bay is a bay in the small factory town of Minamata on the west coast of Kyūshū island, located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The bay is part...3 KB (300 words) - 13:35, 7 June 2024
- Ontario Minamata disease is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. It occurred in the Canadian province of Ontario, in 1970, and severely...12 KB (1,227 words) - 05:07, 8 August 2024
- Mercury in fish (section Minamata disease)Protection Agency for people who eat the fish regularly. Since the Minamata disaster, Japan has improved on its mercury regulation. During the 1970s Japan...75 KB (7,487 words) - 01:55, 1 May 2024
- Four Big Pollution Diseases of Japan (category Environmental disasters in Japan)'four' becoming the prominent way to refer to the events, Minamata disease and Niigata Minamata disease were the same pollution disease caused by the same...14 KB (1,700 words) - 23:57, 5 July 2024
- Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows 1970 Ontario Minamata disease in Canada 1976 Seveso disaster, chemical plant explosion, caused highest known exposure...22 KB (2,624 words) - 04:13, 27 June 2024
- Niigata Minamata disease (新潟水俣病, Niigata Minamata-byō) is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Identical in symptoms to the original...10 KB (938 words) - 08:17, 16 December 2023
- coined Minamata disease. Symptoms include general muscle weakness, hearing damage, reduced field of vision, and ataxia. The Minamata disaster contributed...22 KB (3,061 words) - 21:44, 21 December 2023
- Minamata: The Victims and Their World (水俣 患者さんとその世界, Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai) is a Japanese documentary made in 1971 by Noriaki Tsuchimoto....7 KB (859 words) - 02:21, 22 September 2022
- muscle movements) and vision loss, symptoms similar to those seen when Minamata disease affected Japan. The recorded death toll was 459 people, but figures...16 KB (1,945 words) - 09:27, 15 August 2024
- Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows (category Health disasters in Canada)generations, many suffered with symptoms of mercury poisoning, including Minamata disease. An expert report in 2016 confirmed that the Wabigoon River was...57 KB (6,769 words) - 18:01, 6 June 2024
- hearing, or trouble seeing. High-level exposure to methylmercury is known as Minamata disease. Methylmercury exposure in children may result in acrodynia (pink...84 KB (8,833 words) - 01:21, 9 August 2024
- [clarification needed] Methylmercury is the causative agent of the infamous Minamata disease. "Methylmercury" is a shorthand for the hypothetical "methylmercury...39 KB (4,154 words) - 10:39, 31 July 2024
- by documenting one of the world’s most devastating environmental disasters. Minamata had its gala premiere at Berlinale 2020, where it was acquired for...29 KB (2,943 words) - 19:01, 21 August 2024
- Minamata disease compensation agreements of 1959 were agreed between the polluting Chisso company and representative groups of fishermen and Minamata...15 KB (2,207 words) - 23:46, 15 December 2022
- Paper and pulp industry in Dryden, Ontario (category Environmental disasters)Grassy Narrows and Whitedog suffered from mercury poisoning, including Minamata disease. Mercury never dissolves and is bioaccumulative. Plans to build...23 KB (2,550 words) - 15:36, 10 July 2024
- source in some regions. A serious industrial disaster was the dumping of waste mercury compounds into Minamata Bay, Japan, between 1932 and 1968. It is estimated...118 KB (12,591 words) - 13:32, 16 August 2024
- Redress (2010), Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent (1998), Minamata Convention on Mercury (2013). Human rights and environment: Aarhus Convention