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Once mercury is emitted into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of power plants, the pollutant has a complicated trajectory; even after it settles onto land and sinks into oceans, mercury can be re-emitted back into the atmosphere repeatedly. This so-called \u201cgrasshopper effect\u201d keeps the highly toxic substance circulating as \u201clegacy emissions\u201d that, combined with new smokestack emissions, can extend the environmental effects of mercury for decades.Now an international team led by MIT researchers has conducted a new analysis that provides more accurate estimates of sources of mercury emissions around the world. The analysis pairs measured air concentrations of mercury with a global simulation to calculate the fraction of mercury that is either re-emitted or that originates from power plants and other anthropogenic activities. The result of this work, researchers say, could improve estimates of mercury pollution, and help refine pollution-control strategies around the world.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-812458","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMIT analysis improves estimates of global mercury pollution - Revolution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Once mercury is emitted into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of power plants, the pollutant has a complicated trajectory; even after it settles onto\" \/>\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=mit-analysis-improves-estimates-of-global-mercury-pollution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MIT analysis improves estimates of global mercury pollution - Revolution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Once mercury is emitted into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of power plants, the pollutant has a complicated trajectory; 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