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

While habitat degradation and water mismanagement have already strained its numbers, scientists now believe that mercury ...

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

Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered ...

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

State officials have added two more South Dakota lakes to the fish consumption advisory list after testing found elevated ...

Schartup said she spent years working on mercury pollution in the ocean and in seafood before she “began to feel frustrated diagnosing problems without offering any solutions.” That prompted ...

What if counteracting mercury contamination in waterways could be as simple as adding selenium? That proposition has gained ...

On a single day in March, for example, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to roll back more than two dozen environmental regulations, affecting everything from mercury pollution ...

The rule also holds plants using a dirtier form of coal, lignite, to the same mercury pollution standard other coal plants ...

Therefore, policies and regulations to limit mercury emissions have been implemented across the globe. And, according ... New Study Tracks Air Pollution and CO2 Emissions Across Thousands of Citie ...

This plant throws mercury into the air, and contributes harmful particulate pollution linked to cancer and reproductive and developmental harm. This is as naked a display of cruel disregard for ...