Across the last 200 years, Antarctica has been copping a whole lot of mercury pollution, despite humanity’s best efforts to keep the frozen continent relatively untouched.
Mercury is released into the environment naturally by volcanoes and geological weathering, but ever since humans started to burn fossil fuels and intensify mining, environmental levels of mercury have seriously ramped up.
Meanwhile, Antarctica has been functioning as a kind of mercury ‘sink’, locking away large…
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