Researchers estimate that mercury emissions in the atmosphere have quadrupled since the Industrial Revolution. The heavy metal, generated by burning fossil fuels and the disposal of industrial and ...

National Comics #5 is known for its stand-out Lou Fine cover and for its interior story featuring the expanded origin of the Quality Comics version of Uncle Sam. In addition to work by Fine and Will ...

For the first time, scientists have identified the single largest source of mercury in San Francisco Bay, tracing a path of contamination to an old mine in a Silicon Valley park. Mercury from the long ...

Mercury, also called quicksilver, is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Hg and atomic number 80. A heavy, silvery, transition metal, mercury is one of five elements that are ...