Tag: mercury
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Dragonflies Reveal Surprising Insights into Mercury Pollution
Public Participants Make Monitoring Possible in Uncharted Locations Sources/Usage: Public Domain. View Media DetailsThe map above shows sites where dragonfly larvae were collected for the Janssen et al. 2024 paper. Dragonfly larvae were collected at three types of sites including wetlands, lotic systems (flowing water like streams or rivers), and lentic systems (still waters like lakes…
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After years, Wisconsin industrial barrel plant addresses mercury in water
Photo: Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Mercury has been detected in wastewater coming from an industrial barrel refurbishing plant in St. Francis for at least four years — and more than a dozen times levels exceeded legally permitted limits. Since at least January 2013, records show the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has repeatedly issued warning letters…
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The Effects Of Mercury On Water – such as Methylmercury
Mercury never goes away. It just gets moved around, changing from one chemical form to another, with water playing a major role in both its transport and transformation. Once mercury is released into waterways, it can end up just about anywhere. Ocean currents can carry it around the world, it can evaporate into the atmosphere,…
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Drinking Nuclear Waste in Albuquerque: They hope you’ll stay silent
Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) and the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) are trying to pull off what some people would call an environmental crime. SNL wants to leave high level nuclear, mixed waste in unlined pits and trenches in a dump that is contaminating our drinking water aquifer. The Environment Department has expressed willingness to…
