For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold. Today, the precious metal is just as sought after, but the ...

The West’s snowpack isn’t just dwindling — mining waste has polluted it, too, a new study has found. Filling a gap in federal ...

A new study by Acadia University researchers to examine mercury concentration in the province's terrestrial wildlife has ...

The following discussion will deal with acute mercury poisoning resulting from the ingestion of the inorganic compound, mercuric bichloride (corrosive sublimate). Mercuric bichloride is readily ...

Mercury compounds were used until quite recently to make insecticides (chemicals that kill the insects that damage crops) and special paints that stop barnacles growing on the hulls of ships.