To the editor; I’ve been researching the environmental issue of high levels of mercury in fish, this has been caused by industries burning coal in their production, which allows mercury to escape. In most cases there is mercury suspended in steam and smoke, getting into…
My environmental concern is high mercury levels in fish. Majority of factories use mercury and as a result, inorganic mercury escapes into the water ways, microorganisms transform it into organic mercury which then clings to the proteins in fish, often in ontario the mercury will…
16-year-old Paris Meekis teams up with Masoud Soroush and his team of engineers at Drexel University Ontario to combat the high levels of mercury in the clay lake Ontario, for the safety of Grassy Narrows residents. Masoud Soroush has been a teacher at Drexel Engineering…
In Grassy narrows, ON (80 km north of Kenora, ON) residents are among the most mercury contaminated waters in the entire province. For generations the residents of these lands have relayed on fishing by Clay Lake which has been extremely contaminated with mercury after a…
As we eat fish like tuna, king mackerel, tilefish, swordfish, shark, and many other species- we are consuming small amounts of mercury. Fish can absorb methylmercury from what they eat and from the surrounding water when it passes their gills, that mercury then clings to…