Mercury Emissions Further Threaten Food Webs

According to an article from Environmental Health News, further mercury contamination of oceans and lakes are threaten aquatic food webs. The link to the article is here.

The article discusses the end of mercury treaty talks by the Untied Nations and how fast mercury is beginning to contaminate fish and aquatic life higher up the food chain. Much of the research for these findings was done when researchers put mercury into Lake 658 of the Experimental Lakes in Ontario, Canada. According to the studies, scientists are finding that new mercury emissions pose more of a threat to global food chains than old mercury pollution through acid rain and the like. There is an expected increase of about 500 tons per year of mercury emissions by 2020 if no major changes occur and no treaty is set in place. Scientists are worried about the effects this may have on the aquatic environments as well as an increase in mercury levels found in humans from their aquatic foods. 

~Alexandria