Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coal-fired power plants are a source of mercury that people can ingest by eating fish. Mark Wilson/Getty Images People fishing ...

Elemental mercury (Hg 0) is a toxic air pollutant that can travel long distances and circulate globally. Scientists have long suspected that today’s emission inventories do not fully explain measured ...

A research team, led by Professor Sung-Deuk Choi from the Department of Civil, Urban, Earth, and Environmental Engineering at UNIST, has developed a novel assessment technique to accurately identify ...

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 like ...

In 1962, when environmentalist and author Rachel Carson penned 'Silent Spring,' alerting the world to the dangers of the pesticide DDT, it was the reproductive threat to birds -- the bald eagle in ...

Sitting calmly in their webs, many spiders wait for prey to come to them. Arachnids along lakes and rivers eat aquatic insects, such as dragonflies. But, when these insects live in ...

For years, people fishing along the banks of the White River that winds through Indianapolis were met by ominous signs warning about eating the fish they catch. One of those risks was mercury ...