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

Across West Africa, mercury — a potent neurotoxin — remains the dominant method for extracting gold from ore in the region’s ...

The facility's permit is up for renewal. Activists say the Indiana Department of Environmental Management needs to do more to ...

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

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.

Senegal ratified the Minamata Convention on Mercury in 2016, pledging to reduce mercury use and pollution. But the substance remains widely accessible. Most of the country’s supply comes from ...

“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 ...

Therefore, policies and regulations to limit mercury emissions have been implemented across the globe. And, according ... New Study Tracks Air Pollution and CO2 Emissions Across Thousands of Citie ...

North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality Air Permitting Program Manager David Stroh said the state agency is not necessarily opposed to more stringent requirements for mercury pollution ...