What if counteracting mercury contamination in waterways could be as simple as adding selenium? That proposition has gained ...

The vessel floats 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) upstream of Humaitá municipality, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, to start an endeavor to monitor the water quality and mercury contamination of ...

Ice, ice, baby — too cold, too cold. A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the planet closest to the sun has “frozen water” on its surface — and they’re ...

A specially designed microbe cuts dietary methylmercury levels in pregnant mice, signaling the potential for a new tool for ...

Norton said the process tested in K-State’s labs can detect mercury down to 10 parts per million, a level considered high for water safety. The researchers tested pond water, drinking water and ...

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing to curb illegal gold mining in the Nanay River basin.

Alligators aren’t all that’s lurking in southeast swamps as University of Georgia research uncovers increased levels of a toxic metal in the water.

Human activity has caused the amount of mercury being transported through rivers all over the world to increase up to threefold since the Industrial Revolution, making regulations to prevent toxic ...

Concentrations of methylmercury, the most toxic form of mercury that’s made when microbes add carbon to mercury, were also 178% higher in water from burned streams.I nsects that filtered stream ...

Data collected by the DEP on private well water tests mandated under a state law approved in 2001 show that less than 1% of wells in the nine counties in South Jersey show mercury contamination ...

NEW IDRIA, Calif. (AP) — Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California’s rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state’s major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking ...

Microorganisms in the water convert this inorganic mercury into methylmercury, which then accumulates in the aquatic food chain, including fish. Given the critical role of the world’s fisheries in the ...