Mercury is a heavy metal that's commonly found in the natural world. Mercury poisoning happens as a result of too much exposure to mercury. You can be exposed to mercury in a number of ways, and ...

Thimerosal, which contains an organic compound of mercury, has mostly been phased out as a preservative for vaccines. Here’s ...

Researchers found mercury levels are higher in the Okefenokee than other gator hotspots in the Southeast. How they sampled ...

Today, those atmospheric mercury levels are as high as 4,000 metric tons, according to a 2015 study cited by the researchers. That's a huge gap, and some of the best evidence yet of the extent of ...

Students and Theses. Mahalingam Ravichandran, Ph.D., 1999, Interactions between Mercury and Dissolved Organic Matter in the Florida Everglades. "Ravi" tested the hypothesis that dissolved organic ...

The activity of humans has significantly raised the levels of mercury in the atmosphere. These levels have gone up about seven times since 1500 CE, when the modern era began. A new method was ...

Harvard researchers estimated that before humans started pumping mercury into the atmosphere, it contained on average about 580 megagrams of mercury. However, in 2015, independent research that ...

Natural bacteria absorb mercury and convert it into methylmercury, introducing it into the food chain. Small fish consume or absorb the methylmercury and are eaten by larger fish.