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

The Dragonfly Mercury Project is studying dragonflies to determine amount of mercury in national park habitats. The project ...

Many power plants benefiting from exemptions rank among the nation’s worst polluters. The Trump administration says cheaper ...

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

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.

This characteristic makes dragonflies invaluable indicators of mercury pollution. In an expansive ... dragonflies by taking action to prevent water contamination and leaving the edges of any ...

Colorful, fast and acrobatic, dragonflies are a pretty sight when you spot them in nature. They're also invaluable indicators ...

Before they can fight to survive, some endangered songbirds are losing their groove and being robbed of their chance at love—all because of what's in their food. Residing exclusively in ...

“I spent years working on mercury pollution in the ocean and in our seafood, mostly on the ‘bad news’ side of science,” said Schartup. “Over time, I began to feel frustrated diagnosing problems ...

All you have to worry about is, don’t eat high mercury fish several times a week,” food scientist Abbey Thiel tells Fortune.

Across West Africa, mercury — a potent neurotoxin — remains the dominant method for extracting gold from ore in the region’s ...

Seafood is the main dietary source of mercury, thanks to pollution from mining and other industrial activities. Once in the ocean, mercury is converted into methylmercury — a far more toxic form that ...