This mercury hot spot map indicates 244 locations where the amount of mercury contamination exceeds the background, or naturally occurring, level in the environment.
This document sets the direction and scope for the North American Wildlife Enforcement Group for the next 5 years.
A PRTR is an innovative recording tool consisting of detailed data on chemicals that industrial and other facilities release on-site or transfer off-site
On 22-23 May 2001, the environment ministers or their representatives from the three NAFTA countries, along with their counterparts from around the world, will congregate in Stockholm, Sweden, to formally adopt and sign an international agreement to minimize and eliminate persistent organic pollutants (POPs), some of the most toxic substances ever created by human beings. […]
In a groundbreaking NACEC study conducted by a team led by scientist Barry Commoner of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), dioxins falling in the new polar territory of Nunavut are linked to their source regions thousands of kilometers away.
“When Canada, Mexico, and the United States strengthened economic ties through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), they also pledged to undertake a new environmental partnership. In 1993, the three nations signed the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) and created the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). Among the objectives of the NAAEC is the building of regional cooperation for the conservation, protection and enhancement of the environment.The NAAEC also commits the Parties to the effective enforcement of their respective environmental laws, including those protecting wild flora and fauna.
Flying within and among the nations of North America, migratory birds see no boundaries. They have surged northward and southward each year, long before humans populated the Americas and borders were created. These migratory species, many of them threatened or endangered, forge a fundamental ecological link between Canada, Mexico and the United States, providing a […]
Canada, Mexico and the United States were among the more than 100 nations that agreed in 1995 to the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA), which was developed under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assist national and regional authorities in reaching […]
