The findings, published June 7 in Environmental Science and Technology, are an essential step toward mapping the sources of monomethylmercury in the oceans. Understanding the sources of the compound is also key to predicting how quickly concentrations of the toxin might decline in marine food webs if human activities that release mercury, such as burning coal and artisanal gold mining, are curtailed.
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