Mercury on the rise in endangered Pacific seabirds
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 15:32
in Biology & Nature
Using 120 years of feathers from natural history museums in the United States, Harvard University researchers have been able to track increases in the neurotoxin methylmercury in the black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes), an endangered seabird that forages extensively throughout the Pacific.