Background Credit: Image of Mercury: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Background Since Mercury is the ...
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining is a lifeline for many who live in Madre de Dios, a region in southeastern ...
A research team led by Prof. XIE Zhouqing and Prof. LE Fange from the University of Science and Technology of ...
Sitting calmly in their webs, many spiders wait for prey to come to them. Arachnids along lakes and rivers eat ...
BepiColombo, the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission, has revealed how electrons raining down ...
Sulphuric acid is the world’s most used chemical. It is an important reagent used in many industries and it is ...
Houston, TX – New research by a team at Pennsylvania State University suggests that microbes in the human gut could ...
Missing from partisan political debates over regulations affecting the energy sector is the stunning success of the federal government’s signature ...
Almost half of mercury exposure comes from mercury embedded in global trade, according to an analysis of the global flows ...
Mercury, a global pollutant that is especially toxic health and the environment, is the focus of a new Italian-led study ...
Although many measures are in place to prevent contamination, pollutants, such as mercury and lead, can still end up in ...
The Latest Permian Mass Extinction (LPME) was the largest extinction in Earth’s history to date, killing between 80-90% of life ...
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 ...
A University of Maryland researcher and colleagues found that the fungus Metarhizium robertsii removes mercury from the soil around plant ...
Mercury is a unique element that has found a myriad of scientific and practical applications throughout the centuries. Besides its ...
The cities of the ancient Maya in Mesoamerica never fail to impress. But beneath the soil surface, an unexpected danger ...
Over the last decade, researchers have learned a lot about the polar night — discovering everything from how tiny marine ...
Over the last decade, researchers have learned a lot about the polar night — discovering everything from how tiny marine ...
Researchers estimate that mercury emissions in the atmosphere have quadrupled since the Industrial Revolution. The heavy metal, generated by burning ...
The Minamata Convention (MC) aims to restrict and limit the trading of mercury, a highly toxic pollutant. While most countries ...
