Three heavy metals were found at concentrations thousands of times greater after the fire. The implications for wildlife hang ...

and how they compare to Elkhorn Slough. High levels of heavy metals such as nickel, cobalt, and manganese “bioaccumulate,” or move up the food chain from plants and microbes into fish ...

Nickel, cobalt and manganese, found in lithium-ion batteries, increased dramatically at Elkhorn Slough after the fire ...

About two weeks after a fire at Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County, San Jose State University scientists reported unusually high concentrations of heavy metals in the soils of Elkhorn Slough ...

Elevated concentrations of heavy metals have been detected at the Elkhorn Slough Reserve by scientists ... potentially impacting ecosystems and food webs. A treasure of central coast ecology ...