MIT analysis improves estimates of global mercury pollution

ENN
Aug 21, 2015, 8:26 am50 pts
Once mercury is emitted into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of power plants, the pollutant has a complicated trajectory; even after it settles onto land and sinks into oceans, mercury can be re-emitted back into the atmosphere repeatedly. This so-called “grasshopper effect” keeps the highly toxic…

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