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High levels of mercury exposure can cause birth defects, permanent brain or kidney damage, and/or death. This resource focuses on the impacts of mercury in the environment. Learn how mercury can reap havoc on lakes and other aquatic ecosystems, such as rivers, streams, wetlands and oceans where many predatory species of fish and wildlife, which rely on fish for food, are at risk of mercury poisoning. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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biomagnification, chemical plant, industrial pollution, marine pollution, mercury in fish, great lakes pollution, mercury poisoning, pollution probe: mercury in the environment, chemical environmental pollution, mercury bioaccumulation, mercury cycle, mercury policy in canada, mercury pollution in canada, metal smelters, methyl mercury, pollution and industry
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