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Industrial activities like mining, fossil fuel combustion, and cement production release mercury into the environment. Shutterstock

Plants safely store toxic mercury. Bushfires and climate change bring it back into our environment

Larissa Schneider, Australian National University; Colin Cooke, University of Alberta; Nathan D Stansell, Northern Illinois University, and Simon Haberle, Australian National University

Plants can store mercury and keep it from contaminating waterways, air and soils. Unfortunately, that mercury is released when plants burn.

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