Green Blog: Sounding an Alarm on Birds and Mercury

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 08:20 in Earth & Climate

Mercury, which drifts into the Northeast largely from coal-burning power plants in the Midwest, is being deposited on dry land, and songbirds that survive solely on insects are taking in dangerous amounts of it.

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