Once in the water, mercury is transformed by bacteria into methylmercury, the toxic form that builds up in fish. “All marine organisms will contain mercury,” explains Dr Andrew Turner ...

A recent study, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, examined the skeletal remains of a child who lived ...

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have come up with a novel approach to packaging canned tuna ...

RFK, Jr. fought mercury pollution for years, but he is now in an administration that wants to make it easier for industries ...

(Learn how mercury gets into fish.) Though the agencies say consumers should seek out fish that are low in mercury, almost all seafood contains the toxin in varying amounts, and getting too much ...

A recent article published in Global Challenges proposed a novel approach to lowering mercury levels in fish meat during post-packaging storage, which could potentially extend its safe consumption ...

Over the past decade, high concentrations of mercury contamination have appeared in higher organisms in the Florida Everglades. In some locations ("hot spots"), game fish contain mercury levels that ...

Much of the fish you eat is contaminated with mercury, a toxic element that finds its way from factories and power plants into rivers, lakes, and oceans. This has become a major public health ...