Researchers found that atmospheric mercury levels have decreased by almost 70% in the last 20 years, mainly because ...

Mercury (Hg) is a naturally occurring element found across the globe, yet it becomes highly toxic as it accumulates up the ...

New research has found that our efforts to reduce the amount of mercury in the atmosphere are bearing fruit, with levels down ...

The convention's effectiveness is judged partly on the amount of mercury in the atmosphere. Gaseous elemental mercury is also released from its largest natural reservoir, the soil, which might be ...

This plant (left), found along the slopes of Mount Everest, grows in individual layers (right) that have been used to understand how atmospheric mercury levels have changed in the past 40 years.