National Park Service officials have found "extraordinarily high levels of mercury" in the exotic python snakes taking root in the Everglades. It appears that the Everglades is doing its job as a marsh, filtering out pollutants like mercury. Only trouble is, methylmercury is bioavailable and bioaccumulated. Sulfur-based fertilizers used by Florida sugarcane farmers may be the source of increasing
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