As gold prices hover at record highs, a leading Catholic leader in Peru’s Amazon is urging countries that are destinations ...

The soaring price of gold is fueling a "mercury boom" in central Mexico. A surge in the demand for the toxic metal, which is ...

A South American trade bloc has ruled that Peru is failing to curb illegal gold mining and mercury trafficking.

A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of Earth’s most toxic elements. Buried in red stripes of minerals illuminated by ...

A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of Earth’s most toxic elements. Buried in red stripes of minerals illuminated by ...

In June, the EPA announced it would revert mercury pollution regulations for power plants back to 2012 standards, which removes 2024 amendments that required facilities to cut back on mercury, arsenic ...

Many marine mammals and seabirds degrade methylmercury mostly in the liver. Atlantic bluefin tuna appear to lean on the ...

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Carlos Martinez discards mercury rocks after baking them in San Joaquin, Mexico, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) Carlos Martinez discards mercury rocks after baking them in San ...