Ocean oxygen loss, not just mercury pollution, can trigger toxic methylmercury blooms that threaten marine life and seafood ...

The heavy metal mercury exists in different forms, which include elemental mercury vapor that forms when fossil fuels and ...

Climate-driven oxygen loss in the Black Sea thousands of years ago triggered the expansion of microorganisms capable of ...

A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river dolphins. They draw it ...

One figure stressed that health risks are particularly acute in the Amazon, where access to medical services is scarce ...

Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) have traced the atmospheric journey of industrial mercury emissions from Asia ...

A Catholic bishop in Peru's Amazon is warning that mercury from illegal gold mining is contaminating rivers, fish and people ...

Heavy metals originate from multiple pathways: untreated industrial effluents, such as those from tanneries and mining ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced she is joining 17 other state attorneys general to oppose the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to repeal the ...