Environment Mercury Universal 
Green Car Congress
JULY 10, 2023
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a method that can reduce the levels of mercury in sulfuric acid by more than 90%, even from low levels. It is therefore a worldwide challenge that sulfuric acid often contains one of the most toxic substances: mercury.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 8, 2013
More forms of mercury can be converted to methylmercury—a form of mercury that can be taken into the food chain and eventually can result in mercury-contaminated fish—than previously thought, according to a study led by a team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) published in Nature Geoscience.
Green Car Congress
JULY 5, 2020
E-waste is a health and environmental hazard, containing toxic additives or hazardous substances such as mercury, which damages the human brain and/or coordination system. E-waste is a health and environmental hazard, containing toxic additives or hazardous substances such as mercury, which damages the human brain and/or coordination system.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 3, 2010
under illumination from a low pressure mercury lamp. Results from using the ultraviolet (UV) photolytic process for production of hydrogen from aqueous Na 2 SO 3 solutions showed that the quantum efficiency of hydrogen production can reach 14.4% Huang et al. Cunping Huang, Clovis A. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es903766w.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. —Daniel Kammen.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Breathing vanadium-rich aerosols has unknown but potentially adverse health impacts, according to the researchers, who note that the human impacts on the global vanadium cycle parallel impacts on the global cycles for lead and mercury. Duke Professor Emeritus of Biogeochemistry at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment.
Cars That Think
MARCH 5, 2025
Supernova explosions, the catastrophic self-destruction of certain types of worn-out stars, are intimately tied to life on Earth because they are the birthplaces of heavy elements across the universe. Most of the iron in our blood and the sulfur in our amino acids originated in stars that detonated billions of years ago.
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