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 ...

Trees nearest the mines had higher concentrations of mercury in their rings. Passive air sampling confirmed the mercury measurements.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...