For years, people fishing along the banks of the White River that winds through Indianapolis were met by ominous signs ...
WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Moosic, and U.S. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01) and Brian Mast (R-FL-21) this wee introduced the “Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act.” This ...
Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury—a form so harmful that just a few billionths of a gram can cause severe and lasting ...
One of the world’s richest biodiversity hot spots is Peru’s Madre de Dios, a region of the Amazon nestled at the base of the Andes mountains. When biogeochemist Jacqueline Gerson first traveled there ...
Gold-mining equipment operates in water near a river bank with trees in the background. Illegal gold mining along the Madre de Dios River near Puerto Maldonado in the Amazon River basin of Peru.