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Published online 3 June 2009 | Nature 459, 620-621 (2009) | doi:10.1038/459620b
Corrected online: 11 June 2009

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Funding struggle for mercury monitoring

Researchers look to quantify pollution levels.

Naomi Lubick

Nicola Pirrone may need all the help he can get next week. In the hallways of a conference in Guiyang, China, Pirrone — the director of Italy's CNR-Institute for Atmospheric Pollution Research — will be trying to rustle up support for a global network to monitor mercury pollution.

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  • The measurements by Wan et al (Environ. Res., 2009), cited by the author, were conducted in Northeastern China, not in "Taiwan" as stated by the author.

    • 03 Jun, 2009
    • Posted by: Daniel Tong