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The levels of mercury pollution in the atmosphere has increased by seven times since the beginning of the modern era around 1500 C.E., new research shows. As detailed in a new study published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the researchers made a breakthrough by devising a method of measuring the mercury emissions […]

Humans have increased the concentration of potentially toxic mercury in the atmosphere seven-fold since the beginning of the modern era around 1500 CE, according to new research.The researchers from Harvard University in the US estimated that ...

<p>Harvard 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 available atmospheric measurements estimated the atmospheric mercury reservoir was about 4,000 Mg — nearly 7 times larger than the natural condition estimated in this study.</p> <p> </p>