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Plants safely store toxic mercury. Bushfires and climate change bring it back into our environment

  • Written by Larissa Schneider, DECRA fellow, Australian National University
Plants safely store toxic mercury. Bushfires and climate change bring it back into our environmentIndustrial activities like mining, fossil fuel combustion, and cement production release mercury into the environment.Shutterstock

Climate change and bushfire may exacerbate recent mercury pollution and increase exposure to the poisonous neurotoxin, according to our study published in the Journal of Paleolimnology.

Mercury stored in plants is...

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