Toxic mercury trapped in Arctic’s permafrost is now leaking into environment due to global warming | Arctic indigenous peoples among some of the most mercury-exposed human populations globally

3 comments

1. Couldn’t find the source for that mercury, could it be from burning coal for 200 years?

2. Truly Mercury is in retrograde

3. Within that sediment lurks a toxic stowaway: mercury. As the Arctic warms with climate change, heating up to four times faster than the global average, mercury sequestered in the permafrost for millennia is being eroded by rivers and released into the environment