Long assumed by some to have been diluted and washed away over time, mercury contamination from 19th-century gold mining is still moving through Nevada’s Carson River, with levels in some waterfowl ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 17—For decades now, health officials in Minnesota and Wisconsin have warned people to limit their meals of walleyes from the ...

For years, people fishing along the banks of the White River that winds through Indianapolis were met by ominous signs ...

Mercury contamination has been a problem in Virginia’s South River since 1979, when mercury was discovered in the river. Mercury was used in industrial processes at the former DuPont Plant in ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia -- A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia (AP) — A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of ...

A scrap metal and electronics recycling yard in Bethlehem has been spilling unsafe levels of toxic mercury into the Hudson River, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

For decades now, health officials in Minnesota and Wisconsin have warned people to limit their meals of walleyes from the St. Louis River estuary in Duluth and Superior because of unsafe levels of ...