Coal-fired power plants are a major source of mercury contamination for people and the environment. Here's what you need to know.

Researchers estimated that before humans started pumping mercury into the atmosphere, it contained on average about 580 megagrams of mercury. However, in 2015, independent research that looked at all ...

The activity of humans has significantly raised the levels of mercury in the atmosphere. These levels have gone up about seven times since 1500 CE, when the modern era began. A new method was ...

Mercury pollution levels in the Earth’s atmosphere have spiked by seven times since the modern era began around 1500 CE, new research shows. The work, published as a study in the journal Geophysical ...

Humans have increased the concentration of potentially toxic mercury in the atmosphere sevenfold since the beginning of the modern era around 1500 C.E., according to new research from the Harvard John ...