When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication ...

Mercury is released by environmental and human-driven processes. And some forms, specifically methylmercury, are toxic to humans. Therefore, policies and regulations to limit mercury emissions have ...

New research has found that our efforts to reduce the amount of mercury in the atmosphere are bearing fruit, with levels down ...

Indiana residents now have a new way to track pollution from coal plants across the state. The Sierra Club's new online ...

A former EPA official warns exemption for some coal-fired power plants could be the first step toward gutting pollution rules ...

Mercury is released by environmental and human-driven processes. Some forms, specifically methylmercury, are toxic to humans.

Sulfur from sugarcane crops is flowing into wetlands in the Florida Everglades, creating toxic methylmercury, which ...

Bourama Traoré and his brother, now aged 20 and 29, grew up along the banks of the Niger River. Their daily routine has ...

State officials have added two more South Dakota lakes to the fish consumption advisory list after testing found elevated mercury levels in large walleye. The state announced Monday that Dry Lake #1 ...

Opinion: the dirtiest coal plant in the nation just got special permission to continue spewing toxic pollutants into our air ...

To try to make a dent in this problem, Tepper and her colleagues genetically engineered zebra fish and fruit flies so that ...

Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered bacterium that has the ability to convert the toxic form of mercury present in ...