University of Hawaii: Fish Carcasses Deliver Toxic Pollution to Deepest Ocean Trenches
November 19, 2020
November 19, 2020
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Nov. 19 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii 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 all: the 36,000-foot-deep Mariana Trench in the northwest Pacific Ocean. And most of that mercury began its long journey to the deep-sea trenches as atmospheric emissions from coal-fired power plants, m . . .
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 all: the 36,000-foot-deep Mariana Trench in the northwest Pacific Ocean. And most of that mercury began its long journey to the deep-sea trenches as atmospheric emissions from coal-fired power plants, m . . .