Awareness surrounding mercury pollution and its effects on both wildlife and humans is spreading. Recent studies suggest mercury pollution to be more widespread than first anticipated, particularly in ...

About 10% of human-made mercury emissions into the atmosphere each year are the result of global deforestation, according to a new MIT study. The world's vegetation, from the Amazon rainforest to the ...

The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed new, stricter rules for harmful pollutants, including mercury, from coal-fired power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to slash ...

A new study has unveiled surprising findings about mercury pollution: where it comes from and how it moves through the environment vary significantly depending on the ecosystem. In drier regions, most ...

The Bush administration on Tuesday issued the nation’s first regulations on mercury pollution from coal-burning power plants, relying on a market trading system that gives companies 15 years to reduce ...

Mercury is a highly toxic substance that can contaminate water sources and soil, leading to serious environmental and health ...

In 2017, the Minamata Convention on Mercury went into effect, designed to help curb mercury emissions and limit exposure across the globe. However, a new study of mercury levels in soil suggests that ...

Scientists have found that the highest recorded levels of atmospheric mercury exist in an unlikely place — Peru's Amazon rainforest. The study, published on Wednesday in Nature Communications, pointed ...

New research 1 exposes the stratosphere as a major driver of mercury pollution, challenging long-held beliefs that the layer below it, the troposphere, dictates global spread of the heavy metal.

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia -- 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 ...

In a striking example of how harmful impacts of pollution can be reversed, mercury levels inside fish tissue at a handful of Minnesota lakes have fallen so far that scientists are rethinking how much ...

Sept. 13 (UPI) --Bluefin tuna, which migrate long distances and accumulate mercury as they age, can serve as global barometers of mercury pollution, according to a new study. Health officials in the ...