CHICAGO Attorney General Kwame Raoul co-led a coalition of 17 state attorneys general, the city of Chicago, New York City and ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

June 12 (UPI) --Mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife are on the rise despite reductions in mercury release, according to a new study published Thursday. Researchers from Aarhus University and ...