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Warmer seas may raise mercury in fish
2013-10-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Scientists in the US say they have found evidence suggesting that warmer sea surface temperatures may increase the ability of fish to accumulate mercury. This could present a risk to the health of some consumers of seafood as the mercury rises up the marine food chain. The scientists, based at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, report their research in the journal PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science ONE). Until now science has known little about how global warming may affect mercury accumulation...
Climate Change May Trigger Higher Mercury Levels in Fish, Study Suggests
2013-10-05 18:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Adding to the extensive list of climate change's effects, researchers from Dartmouth College have uncovered a link between rising ocean surface temperatures -- a result, they say, of a changing climate -- and the amount of mercury in fish. High in protein and omega-3 fatty acids, fish can play an important role in promoting proper growth and development as well as heart health. However, tucked away in the fatty tissue of many kinds of fish are high levels of methylmercury, an even more toxic form...
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Portland Mercury: Crime Down, Urine Collection WAY UP in Old Town's Entertainment Zone, 10/1/13
2013-10-03 01:15:20| PortlandOnline
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How climate change could make mercury pollution worse
2013-09-26 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Mercury pollution and climate change are both unintended consequences of burning fossil fuels for centuries. A new study finds another link between the two problems: Climate change has the potential to make mercury pollution worse. Mercury is a particularly persistent pollutant, and sticks around in surface waters and the air for centuries, said Dave Krabbenhoft, a researcher at the U.S. Geological Survey in Middleton, Wis. As a volatile metal, it vaporizes at relatively low temperatures, and...
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Final Mercury And Air Toxics Standards (MATS) For Power Plants
2013-09-19 06:49:45| pollutiononline News Articles
EPA is reopening, for 60 days, the public comment period on the startup and shutdown provisions included in the November 2012 proposed updates to pollution limits for new power plants under Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.
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