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

Mercury is released by environmental and human-driven processes. Some forms, specifically methylmercury, are toxic to humans.

The quickest way to separate gold from rock, Sadio Camara says, is with a drop of mercury. She empties a dime-sized packet of ...

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

“By tracking mercury pollution over four decades at the top of the world, we show that global efforts to reduce pollution are working — mercury levels in the air around Mount Everest have dropped ...

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.

New research has found that our efforts to reduce the amount of mercury in the atmosphere are bearing fruit, with levels down ...

"By tracking mercury pollution over four decades at the top of the world, we show that global efforts to reduce pollution are working -- mercury levels in the air around Mount Everest have dropped ...

Mason and Tepper agree the fish would ideally be introduced at highly contaminated sites. Tepper hopes they can stock lakes ...

The state announced Monday that Dry Lake 1 in Clark County and Lake Henry in Kingsbury County have been added to the list.

Activists and northwest Indiana residents are asking the Indiana to reduce water pollution coming from BP’s Whiting Refinery.

In Senegal’s gold-rich Kedougou region, women and children face serious health risks from mercury exposure used in gold processing ...