by Meg | May 16, 2016 | pollution
The vast majority of PDXWildlife’s research involves monitoring panda bear behaviors. Another project that has taken a backseat until now, looks at heavy metal contaminants, such as mercury and methylmercury. After finishing our initial analysis and seeking...
by Meg | Mar 4, 2013 | animal, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Science, wildlife
The extreme difficulty in obtaining permits to transfer biological samples back to the United States from China has caused our mercury project to use a lab here in China. We are very pleased to have made contact with one of China’s foremost Methylmercury...
by Meg | Feb 28, 2012 | coal, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution |
The other afternoon I managed to convince a local restaurant owner to drive me to several coal brick production facilities here in Ya’an. These shops, which are often in the middle of town are simply redistributors of the same coal that is mined near the...
