Various forms of mercury are released naturally by volcanoes and weathering of rocks and soil. Human activities, such as mining or burning fossil fuels, can also release the element into the ...

With 360-degree vision, bright-colored bodies that sparkle jewel-like in the sun, and acrobatic flight patterns reaching speeds of nearly 35 miles per hour, dragonflies are some of the more glamorous ...

A study published in The Journal of Wildlife Management found varying risks to species due to mercury pollution across the ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – Carlsbad Caverns National Park staff recently collected dragonfly larvae for the Dragonfly Mercury Project. Story continues below The project is part of a nationwide study that ...

Occurred on March 6, 2019 / Dohr, Germany Info from Licensor: "My name is Lothar Lenz, and I am a biologist and wildlife photographer from the Eifel region in Germany. My work focuses on documenting ...

Dragonfly larvae sampled from Cape Cod and Minuteman National Historical Park recently helped tell a much bigger story about mercury pollution in the U.S. A national study published this week in the ...

A years-in-the-making model developed by the National Park Service and U.S. Geological Survey could offer a deeper look at mercury concentration levels on federal lands across the country — including ...

At an aquatic laboratory nestled in Warrenville's Blackwell Forest Preserve, freshwater mussels grow in beakers, fish race up and down long holding tanks, and rare endangered dragonfly larva munch on ...

(a) Number of observation records per 500-m elevational band. (b) Number of genera and the number of their observation records in the database. (c) Cumulative number of observation records of each ...

The Lockport Prairie Nature Preserve provides a summer home for a small group of an endangered species of dragonflies born and raised in a biology lab in South Dakota. A team of ecologists with the ...