Producers and cheaters Methanotrophs are looking for the easiest, quickest food supply, with a target of single-carbon compounds like methane and methylmercury, which have similar chemical structures.

Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury—a form so harmful that just a few billionths of a gram can cause severe and lasting ...

Exposure to one of the most toxic forms of mercury (methylmercury) may also disrupt the body's metabolic health, according to the findings of a new international study. The research, involving ...

Humans are exposed to more mercury from eating fish, marine mammals, and crustaceans than from any other source, according to the Food & Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Exposure to one of the most toxic forms of mercury (methylmercury) may also disrupt the body's metabolic health, according to the findings of a new international study. The research, involving ...

Scientists have long warned us that some salt-water fish, such as swordfish and tuna, contain high levels of the toxin methylmercury. Luckily for trout connoisseurs, most freshwater fish do not have ...

Researchers developed a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive model that simulates how environmental factors, including increasing sea temperatures and overfishing, impact levels of methylmercury in fish.

Minamata became one of Japan’s most disturbing pollution disasters after Chisso’s chemical factory released methylmercury into a fishing community that depended on the bay for food. The first official ...

Producers and cheaters Methanotrophs are looking for the easiest, quickest food supply, with a target of single-carbon compounds like methane and methylmercury, which have similar chemical structures.