Researchers find elevated levels of mercury in Colorado mountain wetlands

#ClimateChange is melting #glaciers and #permafrost in the mountains outside of Boulder, #Colorado, exposing rocks and freeing up minerals containing #sulfate, a form of sulfur, to flow downstream into local #watersheds.

#CIRES researchers studied the impacts of sulfate in mountain wetlands and confirmed that elevated levels can increase #methylmercury, a potent #neurotoxin that accumulates up the food chain and can lead to a wide range of health concerns.

"Very little research has looked at methylmercury production in high-elevation wetlands," said Hannah Miller, CU Boulder and CIRES Ph.D. student and lead author of the study. "This leaves important knowledge gaps regarding how much is being produced in mountain wetlands and how this may change with ongoing climate change."

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-elevated-mercury-colorado-mountain-wetlands.html

#Environment
#Health
#ClimateScience
#ClimateCrisis

Eglise à #Cirès (#HauteGaronne) Cette église, par son architecture gothique, témoigne du renouveau architectural des XVe et XVIe siècles. A l'ouest se trouve le clocher-mur roman, avec une flèche aigue à pans c...
Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00094318/cires-eglise
#Patrimoine #MonumentHistorique
Photo CC-BY-SA 4.0 : Père Igor

Maison du XVe siècle à #Cirès (#HauteGaronne) Maison dont la forme carrée pourrait provenir d'une ancienne tour féodale tronquée. La maison comprend un rez-de-chaussée, un étage et deux greniers. Elle s'ouvre p...
Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00094319/cires-maison-du-15e-siecle
#Patrimoine #MonumentHistorique

¿Qué es el sistema de alarma sísmica y cómo funciona?

#PeriodismoParaTi #SociedadNoticias
#alarmasísmica #Sasmex #Sismo @SismologicoMX #TenemosSismo #AlertaSismica #Cires @cires_ac @SismologicoMX @SkyAlertMx

http://sociedad-noticias.com/2023/06/24/que-es-el-sistema-de-alarma-sismica-y-como-funciona/

From the University of Colorado Boulder and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

2° : Rare opportunity to study short-lived volcanic island reveals sulfur-metabolizing microbes
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-rare-opportunity-short-lived-volcanic-island.html

1° : Nicholas B. Dragone et al, The Early Microbial Colonizers of a Short-Lived Volcanic Island in the Kingdom of Tonga, mBio (2023).

https://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03313-22

#microbiology #biochemistry #CUBoulder #CIRES

#introduction

I'm Christina, I'm an atmospheric scientist researching #aerosols and #climate. I'm a #tenuretrack research professor at the Finnish Meteorological Institute and University of Helsinki.

I combine in-situ observations of aerosols and global scale models with the aim of reducing radiative forcing uncertainty.

Formally #NOAA and #CIRES in Colorado. Trying to learn #Finnish #Suomi !