Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Northeast Mercury Pollution Hotspots Identified

From the Adirondack Daily Enterprise

There are five locations in northeastern North America that are considered biological mercury hotspots, and the Adirondack Mountains are one of them.

The Kejimkujik National Park in Nova Scotia, the Upper Connecticut River watershed, the Merrimack River in N.H. and Mass., and the Upper Androscoggin River and Upper Kennebec River watershed of N.H. and Maine, as well as nine other suspected areas which cannot be confirmed until further research is performed, are all at risk.

Read all about the research team that uncovered the data and the reasons these locations, and others like them are uniquely at risk in the full article here.

No comments: