While habitat degradation and water mismanagement have already strained its numbers, scientists now believe that mercury ...

Mercury (Hg) is a naturally occurring element found across the globe, yet it becomes highly toxic as it accumulates up the ...

The quickest way to separate gold from rock, Sadio Camara says, is with a drop of mercury. She empties a dime-sized packet of ...

Researchers found that atmospheric mercury levels have decreased by almost 70% in the last 20 years, mainly because ...

Mason and Tepper agree the fish would ideally be introduced at highly contaminated sites. Tepper hopes they can stock lakes ...

New research has found that our efforts to reduce the amount of mercury in the atmosphere are bearing fruit, with levels down ...

Environmental groups are concerned that a proposed water pollution control permit would allow the BP Whiting Refinery to keep dumping mercury and other forever chemicals into Lake Michigan.

The facility's permit is up for renewal. Activists say the Indiana Department of Environmental Management needs to do more to ...

"By tracking mercury pollution over four decades at the top of the world, we show that global efforts to reduce pollution are working—mercury levels in the air around Mount Everest have dropped ...

In Senegal’s gold-rich Kedougou region, women and children face serious health risks from mercury exposure used in gold processing ...

“By tracking mercury pollution over four decades at the top of the world, we show that global efforts to reduce pollution are working — mercury levels in the air around Mount Everest have ...

Senegal ratified the Minamata Convention on Mercury in 2016, pledging to reduce mercury use and pollution. But the substance remains widely accessible. Most of the country’s supply comes from ...