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Washington Post: Under the watchful eyes of scientists, a little forage fish that lives off the southern coast of Maine developed a strangely large appetite. Killifish are not usually big eaters. But in warmer waters, at temperatures projected for the future by climate scientists, their metabolism — and their appetites — go up, which is not a good thing if there are toxins in their food. In a lab experiment, researchers adjusted temperatures in tanks, tainted the killifish’s food with traces of methylmercury and......
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Study links warmer water temperatures to greater levels of mercury in fish
Posted by Washington Post: Darryl Fears on October 14th, 2013
Posted in Water Conservation