Between recreation and brine shrimp commerce, Utah's Great Salt Lake (GSL) contributes a significant amount of money to Utah's economy. Therefore, it made big news roughly a decade ago when methylmercury results from the lake were found to be the highest ever seen in...
The daunting question of how to manage land and wildlife with respects to impacts made by mercury cycling and bioaccumulation are difficult to address on a local, regional, national, and international level. In a collaborative effort lead by the Biodiversity Research...
Mercury is a dangerous neurological toxin and too much exposure has been responsible for several poisoning outbreaks around the world. Routes of exposure and metabolism have been well documented for elemental mercury, organic mercury, and inorganic mercury. In...
Ethylmercury is a major component of thimerosal, a vaccine preservative, and it has neurotoxic effects that are similar to those of methylmercury, but its tissue deposition and clearance rates in organisms are not well-understood. In order to better understand the...
When mercury is released into the environment it can be transformed from inorganic mercury into the far more toxic form of methylmercury. Scientists have known for decades that bacteria are largely responsible for the methylation of mercury, but the precise mechanism...
Through collaborative research, the Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) assesses emerging threats to wildlife and ecosystems, while using those findings to inform decision makers and advance environmental awareness. The BRI Center for Mercury Studies, in cooperation...
The fifth and final session of the International Negotiating Committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on mercury (INC5) will take place January 13-18 in Geneva, Switzerland. Established in 2009 by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and...
Founded in 2005 by the European Environmental Bureau and the Mercury Policy Project, the Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG) is an international coalition of nearly 100 non-governmental organizations that advocate for human health and the environment.With the goal of...