Tag: Mercury
The lenses of fishes’ eyes record their lifetime exposure to toxic...
Roxanne Razavi, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Hadis Miraly, State University of New York College of...
Plastic pollution is a global problem – here’s how to design...
Sarah J. Morath, Wake Forest University
Plastic pollution is accumulating worldwide, on land and in the oceans. According to...
Consumer electronics have changed a lot in 20 years – systems...
Callie Babbitt, Rochester Institute of Technology and Shahana Althaf, Yale University
It’s hard to imagine navigating modern life without a mobile phone in hand. Computers,...
Gold rush, mercury legacy: Small-scale mining for gold has produced long-lasting...
Jacqueline Gerson, Duke University; Austin Wadle, Duke University, and Jasmine Parham, Duke University
Gold is everywhere in modern life, from jewelry to electronics to smartphones....
Another problem with China’s coal: Mercury in rice
Noelle Eckley Selin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Sae Yun Kwon, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Mercury pollution is a problem usually associated with...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
