Coal-fired power plants are a source of mercury that people can ingest by eating fish. Mark Wilson/Getty Images People fishing along the banks of the White River as it winds through Indianapolis ...

Many Vermonters continue to place themselves at risk from mercury poisoning by eating fish caught in Vermont waters. EPA scientists estimate that one in six women of childbearing age have unsafe ...

A plate of Fish and Ugali. Research reveals that fish eating can expose pregnant women to mercury. [File, Standard] Pregnant women who eat fish in large amounts are likely to expose their unborn ...

An office worker has claimed eating tuna three times a day for months left her with life-threatening mercury poisoning. Nasha Montgomery, 29, from Alabama in the US, spent four months at the end of ...

Mercury is poison. And yet it is on dinner plates everywhere -- in sea bass served in fancy restaurants, in tuna casserole ladled out at home. Most of the time, there is so little, it goes unnoticed.

Munduruku people in Brazil are battling miscarriages and loss of sight and sound, a community leader tells Sky News.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabriel Filippelli, Indiana University (THE CONVERSATION) People fishing along the ...