Researchers find 7,300-mile ring of mercury around tar sands in Canada.

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5. So long, and thanks for all the (contaminated) fish...

Colville Tribes Win Long-Running Environmental Lawsuit against Teck Metals - here.

In the early 90's fisherman reported seeing mercury beads floating on the water in the upper Columbia river, and that led to the Colville Tribe suing the Tech Mining co over the dumping of the waste from their lead and zinc mines, as well as the contaminants spewed out from their smokestacks.

Should also note that mercury has been found in a lot of the Northern lakes on the other side of the country...here.

And now that our pollution is being controlled, China is, of course, increasing, those effects are being seen in Hawaii, here, and in the Great Lakes.

I wonder what effect that is having on all of us?

But not to worry. Fukushima, or perhaps our (the world's) habits of burning all the oil we can find will take us out before we all go utterly mad...