If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The amount of mercury in our atmosphere is a little out of hand, and scientists may ...

If you’re trying to cheat death on Mercury, this is very promising, but the news gets even better. Mercury's Solar Day is Even Longer If the Earth rotates on its axis once every 23 hours, 56 minutes, ...

A research team, led by Professor Sung-Deuk Choi from the Department of Civil, Urban, Earth, and Environmental Engineering at ...

Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a new study.

For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold. Today, the precious metal is just as sought after, but the ...

Feathers from three penguin species – Adelie, gentoo and chinstrap – were collected during the 2010-11 breeding season by ...

For researchers, penguins are more than charismatic wildlife – they are living indicators of global pollution including that ...

The arrows for Norwegian seabird populations are pointing downward. Researchers have now recorded mercury levels above the ...

Most small-scale gold mining operations separate gold from ore by adding liquid mercury and then burning the mixture, ...

Mercury pollution in the Amazon is caused by gold mining. Discover how tree core samples identify the concentration and ...

How hot is Mercury? Mercury's sun-facing side is scorched by temperatures of around 430°C, hot enough to melt lead. Without a substantial atmosphere to distribute heat away from the areas facing the ...