Science-based evidence suggests that mercury pollution may be an even greater threat to ecosystems and human survival than global warming. This course will address this claim by examining the environmental fate of mercury from both historical and current perspectives. Topics will include a review of mercury's human uses and the consequences we now face as a society; the most current, peer-reviewed mercury toxicity models; and the ways in which environmental mercury exposure coupled with factors like nutritional deficiencies create metabolic ...  [click for more]

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Baltimore, MD View details    November 8, 2010 - November 9, 2010