University of Michigan: Fish Carcasses Deliver Toxic Mercury Pollution to the Deepest Ocean Trenches
November 17, 2020
November 17, 2020
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Nov. 17 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:
The sinking carcasses of fish from near-surface waters deliver toxic mercury pollution to the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world's oceans, including the deepest spot of them all: the 36,000-foot-deep Mariana Trench in the northwest Pacific.
And most of that mercury began its long journey to the deep-sea trenches as atmospheric emissions from coal-fire . . .
The sinking carcasses of fish from near-surface waters deliver toxic mercury pollution to the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world's oceans, including the deepest spot of them all: the 36,000-foot-deep Mariana Trench in the northwest Pacific.
And most of that mercury began its long journey to the deep-sea trenches as atmospheric emissions from coal-fire . . .