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Various forms of mercury are released naturally by volcanoes and weathering of rocks and soil. Human activities, such as mining or burning fossil fuels, can also release the element into the ...

To track the sources of mercury pollution across wildlands in the U.S., scientists have turned to an unlikely indictor: dragonfly larvae. As mercury settles in water and soil, it is taken up by ...

(Nanowerk News) It is a high-speed movement: within fractions of a second the mouthparts of the dragonfly larvae spring forwards to seize its prey. For decades, researchers had assumed that this ...

The project is part of a nationwide study that works with citizen scientists and community volunteers to collect dragonfly larvae for mercury analysis. Scientists analyze the larvae to understand how ...

Dragonfly larvae samples were collected as part of the Dragonfly Mercury Project. Many national parks and other protected places, including national forests, wildlife refuges, and tribal lands, have ...

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Dragonfly larvae sampled from Cape Cod and Minuteman National Historical Park recently helped tell a much bigger story about mercury pollution in the U.S. A national study published this week in the ...

Once prevalent in peat bogs across Britain, the distinctive white-faced darter dragonfly’s known population in England had until recently been diminished to just five isolated patches of surviving ...