A global mercury summit in Geneva has faced criticism from environmental and Indigenous groups for failing to act on mercury ...

Olga González, a gemologist and communications strategist, examines the urgent global challenge of mercury pollution in ...

A fusion energy startup claims to have found a way to turn mercury into gold. As the Financial Times reports, San Francisco-based Marathon Fusion says that the same process that could one day ...

The alchemist's dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how to change one element into another is well understood and has been used for decades in ...

The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in ...

Energy startup Marathon Fusion claims to have found a scalable way to turn mercury into gold, but they still have much to prove. Reading time 2 minutes Keep checking those gold prices—scientists have ...

Parties to the UN Minamata Convention on Mercury met this week to discuss illegal trade, gold-mining pollution, and other ...

As small-scale gold mining increases to meet demand, local crops absorb gaseous mercury emitted by the illegal and semilegal ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling network that is fueling one of the Amazon’s most ...

Soaring international gold prices are driving up the price of mercury, a toxic metal key in illegal gold mining, to all-time ...