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

State officials have added two more South Dakota lakes to the fish consumption advisory list after testing found elevated ...

To try to make a dent in this problem, Tepper and her colleagues genetically engineered zebra fish and fruit flies so that ...

State officials have added two more South Dakota lakes to the fish consumption advisory list after testing found elevated mercury levels in large walleye. The state announced Monday that Dry Lake #1 ...

Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered ...

Schartup said she spent years working on mercury pollution in the ocean and in seafood before she “began to feel frustrated diagnosing problems without offering any solutions.” That prompted ...

Doctoral candidate Alan Mock and a team of researchers now have growing concerns about a hidden threat lurking in an ...

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

On a single day in March, for example, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to roll back more than two dozen environmental regulations, affecting everything from mercury pollution ...

Environmentalists and others say the coal plant exemptions could be part of broader plan to eliminate the new environmental ...