In the 1960s and 1970s, the horrors of mercury poisoning in Japan and elsewhere shocked the world into curbing releases of the toxic metal. Since then, mercury pollution from human activities, like burning coal and mining, has declined in many parts of the world. But when a team of French researchers analyzed thousands of tuna samples from 1971 to 2022, they found that mercury levels in the fish remained virtually unchanged. That’s most likely because “legacy” mercury that has accumulated deep i
The levels of mercury pollution in the atmosphere has increased by seven times since the beginning of the modern era around 1500 C.E., new research shows. As detailed in a new study published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the researchers made a breakthrough by devising a method of measuring the mercury emissions […]
The Minamata Convention on Mercury’s Fifth Conference of the Parties takes place in Geneva, Switzerland from October 30 to November 3, 2023. COP-5 is primed