National Wildlife, p. 8. Get a list of fish advisories from your state health department, or download data from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Web site. Look up the places where students in your class fish. Make flyers or posters to publicize this information. In landfills, mercury can filter into the water table.
Incinerated mercury pollutes the air.
Using graph paper, figure a way to show one part per million. This Newton's Apple segment on Children's Health and the Environment is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.