If you live in a coastal area, it can be hard to care for trees properly. Luckily, this low-maintenance tree is just right - ...

Amid a healthy soda alternative craze, a popular brand has introduced a new flavor that it said will be nostalgic for '90s ...

A BRAND which has over 100 stores across the country is coming to Stroud town centre. Health store Grape Tree will open a new store in the town centre, with a notice in the window suggesting it could ...

Prosecutors in Brazil’s Amapá state have warned of an illegal gold mine operating just 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from second-highest known tree in the Brazilian Amazon — an 85-meter (279-foot ...

By studying trees in the Peruvian Amazon, they’ve shown that mercury pollution can be traced by measuring the amount of heavy metals stored year by year inside tree trunks. Dr. Jacqueline Gerson is an ...

Tree rings can be used to determine the release of mercury into the air due to mining activities in South and Central America. This study is crucial in determining illegal mining activity and reducing ...

An international team of researchers has now examined tree rings of species native to the Peruvian Amazon to determine if trees could be used to show approximately where and when atmospheric mercury ...

Now, a team of researchers examined if trees native to the Peruvian Amazon could be used as biomonitors for gold mining activities. By examining mercury concentrations in tree rings, they concluded ...

More information: Ficus insipida tree rings as biomonitors for gaseous elemental mercury in the artisanal gold mining-impacted Peruvian Amazon, Frontiers in Environmental Science (2025). DOI: 10. ...

An international team of researchers has now examined tree rings of species native to the Peruvian Amazon to determine if trees could be used to show approximately where and when atmospheric mercury ...

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest. “We could potentially see whether mining is starting to ...