With Mars and Europa out of reach, many scientists have turned to studying some of the Arctic and Antarctic microbes that have adapted to similarly harsh conditions on Earth.
Earth Sciences
Oct 6, 2014
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Amazon river dolphins are showing alarming levels of contamination mainly because of illegal panning for gold, conservationists say.
Environment
Oct 24, 2019
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Mercury contamination has been a problem in Virginia's South River since 1979, when mercury was discovered in the river. Mercury was used in industrial processes at the former DuPont Plant in Waynesboro, Virginia from 1929 ...
Environment
May 7, 2020
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Mercury contamination is widespread across western North America in the air, soil, lake sediments, plants, fish and wildlife, according to an international research team that included a University of Michigan biologist.
Environment
Sep 14, 2016
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The World Health Organization (WHO) states that exposure to mercury, a natural element that can be present in the air, water and soil, can cause serious health problems, even in small amounts. Mercury contamination or poisoning ...
Archaeology
Nov 15, 2021
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As fish-eating predators at the top of the marine food chain, elephant seals accumulate high concentrations of mercury in their bodies. A new study by scientists at UC Santa Cruz shows that elephant seals shed significant ...
Environment
Sep 7, 2015
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Bottlenose dolphins in the Florida Coastal Everglades have higher concentrations of mercury than any other populations in the world.
Environment
Nov 29, 2016
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have patented a new method to remove toxic mercury from soil, sediment, sludge and other industrial waste. As described in recently awarded U.S. ...
Other
Sep 15, 2009
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River dolphins in the Amazon and Orinoco are under ever increasing pressure from the impact of hydropower dams and mercury contamination from small-scale gold mining, according to results from the first ever river dolphin ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 24, 2019
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More than 140 countries agreed Saturday on a ground-breaking treaty to rein in the use and emission of health-hazardous mercury, the UN said, but environmental activists lamented it did not go far enough.
Environment
Jan 19, 2013
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