Coastal wetlands are just one of dozens of environments where scientists found genes that transform mercury into the neurotoxin methylmercury. Credit: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center/Grace Schwartz Thawing permafrost and contaminated sediment in marine coastal areas pose some of the greatest risks for the production of highly toxic methylmercury, according to findings published in the journal […]
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Field widens for environments, microbes that produce toxic form of mercury

