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In the 1960s and 1970s, the horrors of mercury poisoning in Japan and elsewhere shocked the world into curbing releases of the toxic metal. Since then, mercury pollution from human activities, like burning coal and mining, has declined in many parts of the world. But when a team of French researchers analyzed thousands of tuna samples from 1971 to 2022, they found that mercury levels in the fish remained virtually unchanged. That’s most likely because “legacy” mercury that h...

A new study suggests that human activities pave the way for increased wetland productivity. Read more here.

Certain plants have flowers that open only in the evening, and depend on nocturnal pollinators such as moths to thrive.Around three-quarters of the more than 240,000 species of flowering plants depend on pollinators, and over 70 pollinator species are endangered or threatened, said Rifell.

Experts expressed concerns over destruction of wetlands by human activities in the county

Humanity is headed back to the moon. We shouldn't make the same mistakes there that we have made here on Earth.

Officials say everyone aboard a twin-engine private airplane that crashed today in Massachusetts suffered fatal injuries. The plane went down in a clearing on t

A fire took place at a multi-family apartment building around 10 p.m. Saturday.No one inside the structure on Egleston Avenue, near March Street, was injured,

Seeing the Unseen: Understanding Dark Matter with Lisa Randall (theoretical physicist) Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall explores the enigmatic world of dark matter, its influence on the universe and potential role in extinction events. She also delves into the intricacies of galaxy formation, human-induced threats to existence, and the importance of

Researchers in the Netherlands found 1,000 times as many birds were in the sky after New Year's Eve fireworks compared to other nights.

Pope Francis on Thursday called for a binding international treaty regulating artificial intelligence's development and advancement, warning it could lead to a "technological dictatorship" if left unchecked.