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August 08, 2008

Researchers study mercury in the Great Salt Lake

AP Science News - Posted: August 8th, 2008, 3:44pm EDT
GREAT SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) -- The Great Salt Lake is so briny that swimmers bob in the water like corks. It is teeming with tiny shrimp that were sold for years in the back of comic books as magical "sea monkeys." And, for reasons scientists cannot explain, it is heavily laden with toxic mercury....

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