Most small communities with serious nitrate problems can’t afford expensive water treatment plants. That means the communities, made up largely of low-income families who work the fields, end up ...

The "step-child" of the $1 billion Onondaga Lake cleanup has reduced mercury in the water by 95 percent, scientists say.

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In order to get the very short rabbit fibers to mat together to produce felt, you soaked them in mercury nitrate," he tells Hamilton. Mercury nitrate is a form of inorganic mercury.

Mercury Cleanup Project on Onondaga Lake A three-year pilot project to coat the bottom of Onondaga Lake with fertilizer has cut mercury levels in the water by 95 percent.

Mercury glass has come a long way since the days it was made using actual mercury. Nowadays, authentic mercury glass is made by blowing a double-wall glass object, then pouring a silver nitrate ...

Archeologists have discovered another 2,000-year-old “elixir for immortality” that sheds light on the true cost of chasing ...

Mad hatter disease is a form of chronic mercury poisoning. It got its name because it commonly affected hat makers in the 18th to 20th centuries.

Europe and Australia long ago recognized the benefits of a fertilizer formula that doesn’t blow up. Here, the chemical industry fought back.

Two students of the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) have been charged before the Quezon City Regional Trial Court for lacing a water jug with mercury nitrate, which almost killed a fellow ...