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Noon Wednesday: Climate Change Impacting Mercury Levels

By Marisa Wojcik | Here & Now

July 3, 2019

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Research from the UW-Madison Center for Limnology collecting 30 years of data from lakes points to the long-term impacts of climate change on mercury levels in lakes and fish in Wisconsin. Investigative reporter Sarah Whites-Koditschek describes how scientists, surprised by this data, came across these findings.

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