Mercury Hotspots in the Northeast

The latest edition of BioScience Journal, due out Tuesday, has an article of interest to New Hampshire.

The peer reviewed journal includes a report from the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation about mercury hotspots in the Northeast, from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts, west to the Adirondacks.

The 3-year study involved 11 scientists and more than 73 hundred samples to determine mercury levels.

In some cases, researchers found fish with levels 10 times higher than what the EPA has determined safe.

Dr. Charles Driscoll is one of the lead authors of the study.

He's a Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering at New York's Syracuse University.

He described the studies findings to NHPR's Mark Bevis.