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Alarm bells are ringing for Arctic wildlife with the discovery that mercury levels in the feathers of\u00a0ivory gulls\u00a0have\u00a0increased almost 50-fold.\u00a0University of Saskatchewan\u00a0biologists studied the feathers of museum specimens spanning a 130-year period. Lead researcher Dr Alex Bond told BBC News, \u201cWe\u2019re concerned because the mercury\u2019s going up but their diet hasn\u2019t changed over the 130 years we\u2019ve studied. It\u2019s gone up 45 times, which is twice the average for an animal species in the Arctic.\u201d\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-218498","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMercury levels in Arctic birds found increasing over the past 130 years - Revolution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alarm bells are ringing for Arctic wildlife with the discovery that mercury levels in the feathers of\u00a0ivory gulls\u00a0have\u00a0increased almost\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=mercury-levels-in-arctic-birds-found-increasing-over-the-past-years\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mercury levels in Arctic birds found increasing over the past 130 years - 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