- WHY IT MATTERS: Dan Cristol, a biology professor at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, says we need to understand how mercury moves around the system before anything can be attempted to remove it.
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Liquid Mercury
Mercury contamination in rivers can spread to nearby birds, even ones that don't eat fish or other food from the water, according to a new study. Researchers found high levels of mercury in the blood of land-feeding songbirds living near the South River, a tributary of the Shenandoah. The source of the mercury was spiders, the study found.
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Science. Audio excerpt from the weekly Science journal podcast.
