Mercury’s harmful reach has grown, study finds

Posted on January 24, 2012 | Leave a comment

And the Northeast, being downwind from the coal-fired power plants that emit the toxin, bears the brunt of the damage, that’s now being detected in the region’s songbirds, as the study described in this piece illustrates.

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