'Integrating Knowledge to Inform Mercury Policy'

All in one mercury removal (25 March 2010, link to Highlights in Chemical Technology)

Finding and removing mercury from environmental waters could soon be accomplished with an ‘all-in-one’ magnetic microsphere developed by Chinese scientists.   Shengyang Tao, from the Dalian University of Technology, and colleagues have created a nanocomposite microsphere that can detect, adsorb and remove mercury from water. Wang et al (2010)

The little blue pills that sent Abraham Lincoln into a rage (22 March 2010, link to Royal Society of Chemistry press release)

The Blue Mass pills taken as antidepressants by Abraham Lincoln contained dangerously high levels of mercury likely to have caused his notoriously wild temper, scientists have found.  Researchers who analysed a recently unearthed sample of the medicine discovered it contained up to 120 times the acceptable daily intake of mercury . 

• Mercury isotopes reveal more about sources of mercury to fish in the open Ocean [Senn et al (2010)]
• Agricultural wetlands may be an important hotspot for methlymercury bioaccumulation [ Ackerman and Eagles-Smith (2010)]
• Sources of Mercury Exposure for U.S. Seafood Consumers: 
Implications for Policy [Selin et al. (2009)]
• Mercury contamination of tuna in the Pacific Ocean, why its likely to worsen [Sunderland et al (2009)]
• Global warming may result in higher mercury levels in Arctic seals [Gaden et al (2009)]
• Study reveals new mercury risks for fish and birds [Eagles-Smith and Ackerman (2009)]
• The availability of mercury in streams and how it makes its way into fish and other life-forms [ ES&T Environmental news, 2009]