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

The banyan is a kind of strangler fig tree, and unlike most plants, which grow from the ground up, it thrives when it grows from the sky down. The seed catches in the branches of another tree and ...

FIG trees could give researchers the inside track on whether international efforts to prevent mercury emissions are working ...

Gerson and her team took core samples from the trunks of fig trees (Ficus insipida) at five sites in the Peruvian Amazon. Three of those sites were located within about 3.1 miles of towns with ...