Advocacy groups are mobilizing. Members of Congress reprimand EPA after new policy could put Americans at risk of mercury ...

Northern Minnesota's waters and wetlands offer ideal conditions for toxic mercury to thrive. It's a decadeslong problem ...

Mercury: A heavy, silvery, toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures and the periodic table element known as Hg, with an atomic number of 80 ...

Mercury is a neurotoxin that can be especially harmful to young children and infants in the womb. It mostly enters the environment in Minnesota through air pollution from burning coal, processing ...

Saul Elbein Thu, June 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM UTC 3 min read Mercury from centuries-old pollution still circulating in oceans, study finds ...

Mercury contamination is already happening in Minnesota, where residents have been advised by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to restrict eating fish from rivers, lakes and other bodies of ...

Despite falling global mercury emissions, mercury levels in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A new study reveals that ocean currents are delivering legacy mercury pollution from distant regions ...

There is a lot scientists don't understand about mercury — namely, how it becomes its most toxic form and why our bodies don't get rid of it. Researchers with the Woods Hole Oceanographic ...

In gold rushes like those in 1850s California or the modern Amazon, miners used mercury to bind together gold together from a slurry of dirt and ore, and then burn it off to leave pure gold ...