The EPA just loosened mercury rules for coal plants. Here’s what the toxic metal can do to your health - Environmental and ...
Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek First Nation (also known as Grassy Narrows), located in Ontario, Canada, highlighted Thursday the severe impact of mercury contamination on their community ...
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 ...
Long assumed by some to have been diluted and washed away over time, mercury contamination from 19th-century gold mining is ...
The federal agency that provides health care to Native Americans will no longer treat tooth decay with dental fillings ...
There’s something in the water — and in the gators. A University of Georgia ecotoxicology study found there may be elevated levels of mercury in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp. The alligators were from ...
Researchers from the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) and the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil have found high levels of mercury in the blood and urine of people living on the ...