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Topic: mercury

Planet Mercury (Getty Images/themotioncloud)

Shrinking planet Mercury getting smaller

David Rothery - The Conversation
The Grassy Narrows First Nations Reserve has been plagued by the neurotoxin for over 50 years after a pulp and paper company dumped 10 tonnes of mercury into the Wabigoon River, contaminating the fish that is a staple to their community. (Randy Risling/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Mercury poisoning Indigenous community

Anita Hofschneider - Grist
Artist's representation of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flying through precipitating electrons that can trigger X-ray auroras on the surface of Mercury. (Thibaut Roger/Europlanet)

X-ray auroras illuminated on Mercury

Rae Hodge
Highchair Messy Tray (Getty Images)

New report on poisoned baby food

Matthew Rozsa
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Danger lurks in skin-lightening creams

Anna Almendrala - KFF Health News
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EPA prefers coal plants over people

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, photo, a worker walks across an area where coal ash removal is underway at the Dan River Steam Station in Eden, N.C. Duke Energy Corp. is digging up and hauling away the toxic coal residues two years after one of the worst coal-ash spills in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) (AP)

Coal ash contains toxic chemicals

Laura Mast
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The planet where it rains sunscreen

Keith A. Spencer
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Is this island's cuisine lethal?

Chris White
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Calm down, polluters

Lindsay Abrams
(AP/Josh Reynolds)

SCOTUS sides with Big Coal

Lindsay Abrams
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SCOTUS divided on mercury

Lindsay Abrams
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Brian Palmer
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Lindsay Abrams
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how long you'd survive on each planet (Screenshot from Business Insider)

Sarah Gray
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Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams

Martha Rosenberg - Alternet
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Rebecca Kessler - FairWarning
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