ALBANY – A 10-year study of Adirondack loons shows mercury contamination can lead to population declines because birds with elevated mercury levels produce fewer chicks than those with low levels,…
Marin Youth & Got Mercury Discover High Mercury Levels in Locally Purchased Fish As part of the Marin School of Environmental Leadership project, five students teamed up with the seafood…
Enough is enough. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to fail women and children by allowing seafood with dangerous levels of mercury to be sold in the United…
New findings from a study of contaminants in fish caught off the California coast detected high levels of the toxin methylmercury in more than a third of the locations that…
A sweeping state survey of contaminants in sport fish that were hooked, netted or speared in 68 spots on the California coast underscores a lesson for seafood lovers: Choose well…
San Francisco, CA A report released today by the public health project, GotMercury.org, confirms fears that Bay Area supermarkets continue to sell seafood that is dangerously high in mercury. The…
The strict new federal standards limiting pollution from power plants are meant to safeguard human health. But they should have an important side benefit, according to a study being released on Tuesday:…
Three common environmental chemicals– lead, organophosphate pesticides and methylmercury– may have effects on children’s IQ in the overall population to the impacts of major medical conditions such as preterm birth…
Eight percent of newborns in Lake Superior basin show high levels of mercury, according to a recent study by Minnesota’s Department of Health. In Minnesota alone, 10 percent of the newborns whose…
This week, after decades of legal delays and foot dragging by the coal and power industry, the EPA unveiled a new rule protecting public health from mercury and other toxins….