A judge’s ruling has ended a Canadian coal company’s four-year effort to water down the selenium pollution standards for Lake Koocanusa.

A Montana District Court this week upheld a 2020 state water quality standard for selenium in Lake Koocanusa, dismissing a ...

A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that ...

On the far right side of the periodic table, just beneath oxygen, sits a lesser-known group of elements called the chalcogens, or “ore-forming” elements. While sulfur is widely recognized for its role ...

Lincoln County’s bid to loosen the selenium standard on Lake Koocanusa was blocked in federal court in Missoula this week.

A member of the Piikani First Nation has presented a legal demand letter to the Alberta and federal governments to stop ...

Selenium is a nutrient that plays a crucial role in human health, contributing to the thyroid and immune function, DNA repair, and cardiovascular and cognitive health. It acts as an antioxidant – ...

Brazil nuts have benefits for cognitive health and blood sugar control. They are a source of selenium, which can lower ...

The trace element selenium is an essential micronutrient that is required for the biosynthesis of selenocysteine-containing selenoproteins. Most of the known selenoproteins are expressed in the ...