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Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

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Scientists from Cornell University, working with an international research team, have found a surprising new way to track mercury pollution: tree rings. By studying trees in the Peruvian Amazon, ...

By examining mercury concentrations in tree rings, they concluded that some species could bear witness to illegal mining activities. For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold.

More information: Ficus insipida tree rings as biomonitors for gaseous elemental mercury in the artisanal gold mining-impacted Peruvian Amazon, Frontiers in Environmental Science (2025). DOI: 10. ...

The Late Antique Little Ice Age that Pilø described is reflected in tree ring records across Europe. Nicole Davi, a paleoclimatologist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory's Tree-Ring Laboratory ...

By studying the tree rings in the Sainte-Anne River basin, the researchers say they observed a climate-change linked decline in extreme spring river flows and snowpack levels since 1937. "The ...