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Human activities like coal burning and gold mining can cause mercury pollution in the air, which eventually settles into ...

While Dr. Joseph Ladapo isn’t pushing for a ban on dental amalgams in the state, he nonetheless urges dentists and patients ...

In 2024, the Ig Nobel Prize in biology was awarded posthumously to Fordyce Ely and William Petersen for their seminal 1941 ...

The wetlands found across the Rocky Mountains of Colorado just below tree line are magical places. Dripping with mosses and ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, hat makers commonly used mercury in their trade. Mercury poisoning was so common among hat ...

A horrifying public health disaster in Japan in the mid-20th century brought mercury poisoning to the world’s attention. A petrochemical company had polluted Minamata Bay with mercury.

The Trump administration says it plans to roll back mercury limits for coal-fired power plants. A health expert explains mercury’s risks to humans and the role power plants play.

Samples of fish caught in Indigenous reserves, located in places such as Serranía de Chiribiquete National Park, reveal that ...