Climate change and overfishing increase neurotoxicant in marine predators

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Schartup, Amina T, Thackray, Colin P, Qureshi, Asif
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Civil Engineering; Low Point; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua
• Online Access: http://raiith.iith.ac.in/5921/; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1468-9

More than three billion people rely on seafood for nutrition. However, fish are the predominant source of human exposure to methylmercury (MeHg), a potent neurotoxic substance. In the United States, 82% of population-wide exposure to MeHg is from the consumption of marine seafood and almost 40% is f...