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United States: Wetlands combat global warming, but they create subtle new danger

Baltimore Sun: Kirkpatrick Marsh looks a picture of environmental health, its waters fringed by waving grass and swarming with fat minnows. But seeping out of these Anne Arundel wetlands into the Chesapeake Bay is a pollutant - methylmercury - that causes brain damage in people. "It's quite crazy," says Carl Mitchell, a scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater. "These areas are so beautiful and pristine looking, but they also produce a lot of ... Read »
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