Mercury helps to detail Earth’s most massive extinction event
The Latest Permian Mass Extinction (LPME) was the largest extinction in Earth’s history to date, killing between 80-90% of life ...
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Researchers reach milestone in measurement of airborne mercury
Credit: Photo by Olivier Magand. Journal Science of The Total Environment DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159219 Method of Research Experimental study Subject of ...
UMD researcher shows how a common fungus eliminates toxic mercury from soil and water
A University of Maryland researcher and colleagues found that the fungus Metarhizium robertsii removes mercury from the soil around plant ...
Unintended consequences: analyzing interventions on mercury use and emissions in artisanal gold mining
Mercury is a unique element that has found a myriad of scientific and practical applications throughout the centuries. Besides its ...
Ancient Maya cities were dangerously contaminated with mercury
The cities of the ancient Maya in Mesoamerica never fail to impress. But beneath the soil surface, an unexpected danger ...
Arctic mercury levels drop during the depths of the winter
Over the last decade, researchers have learned a lot about the polar night — discovering everything from how tiny marine ...
Arctic mercury levels drop during the depths of the winter
Over the last decade, researchers have learned a lot about the polar night — discovering everything from how tiny marine ...
Catching up with quicksilver: MXene material can counter mercury contamination
Researchers estimate that mercury emissions in the atmosphere have quadrupled since the Industrial Revolution. The heavy metal, generated by burning ...
New approach to exposing illegal and informal mercury trading
The Minamata Convention (MC) aims to restrict and limit the trading of mercury, a highly toxic pollutant. While most countries ...
A study by the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology investigates mercury contamination in freshwater lakes in Korea
During the 1950s and 1960s, Minamata Bay in Japan was the site of widespread mercury poisoning caused by the consumption ...
UAF researcher part of team that proves Mercury has magnetic storms
An international team of scientists has proved that Mercury, our solar system’s smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those ...
Scientists unveil the distribution and capacity of bacteria to mercury detoxification in the ocean
A team of researchers led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) of Barcelona and the Universitat Autònoma de ...
Industrial discharge is the dominant mercury source in Korea’s west coast
Minamata, a British film released in 2021, is based on the true story of an American photographer documenting how the ...
Peruvian gold rush turns pristine rainforests into heavily polluted mercury sinks
DURHAM, N.C. – If you had to guess which part of the world has the highest levels of atmospheric mercury ...
As the mercury rises, the urban heat penalty grows, especially at night
RICHLAND, Wash.—City living has its perks: Live music, museums, trendy cafés and much more.Credit: Animation by Sara Levine | Pacific ...
TESS discovers a planet the size of Mars but with the makeup of Mercury
Ultra-short-period planets are small, compact worlds that whip around their stars at close range, completing an orbit — and a ...
On the trail of ocean mercury
Mercury is released by coal combustion and mining activities to the atmosphere as a gaseous pollutant. Following global dispersal, mercury ...
Bluefin tuna reveal global ocean patterns of mercury pollution
New Brunswick, N.J. (Sept. 13, 2021) – Bluefin tuna, a long-lived migratory species that accumulates mercury as it ages, can ...
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Anu, previously gropod, awarded nearly $1 million competitive grant from the National Science Foundation
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International group of scientists warns nuclear radiation has devastating impacts on ecosystems
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New experimental treatment can stop the growth of schwannoma tumors
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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In search of the invisible galaxy
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Latin American and Caribbean researchers detail colonialism in ornithology