Arctic mercury cycling

A Dastoor, H Angot, J Bieser, JH Christensen… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions have driven marked increases in Arctic Hg levels,
which are now being impacted by regional warming, with uncertain ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change and mercury in the Arctic: Abiotic interactions

J Chételat, MA McKinney, M Amyot, A Dastoor… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dramatic environmental shifts are occuring throughout the Arctic from climate change, with
consequences for the cycling of mercury (Hg). This review summarizes the latest science on …

A mass balance inventory of mercury in the Arctic Ocean

PM Outridge, RW Macdonald, F Wang… - Environmental …, 2008 - CSIRO Publishing
Environmental context. Mercury (Hg) occurs at high concentrations in Arctic marine wildlife,
posing a possible health risk to northern peoples who use these animals for food. We find …

[HTML][HTML] Updated trends for atmospheric mercury in the Arctic: 1995–2018

K MacSween, G Stupple, W Aas, K Kyllönen… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Arctic region forms a unique environment with specific physical, chemical, and
biological processes affecting mercury (Hg) cycles and limited anthropogenic Hg sources …

[HTML][HTML] Arctic atmospheric mercury: Sources and changes

A Dastoor, SJ Wilson, O Travnikov, A Ryjkov… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Global anthropogenic and legacy mercury (Hg) emissions are the main sources of Arctic Hg
contamination, primarily transported there via the atmosphere. This review summarizes the …

The impact of sea ice on the air-sea exchange of mercury in the Arctic Ocean

BP DiMento, RP Mason, S Brooks, C Moore - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2019 - Elsevier
Atmospheric deposition is the main input of mercury (Hg) to the ocean, even in remote
locations such as the Arctic. Furthermore, evasion of elemental Hg (Hg°) is the major sink for …

Critical review of mercury fates and contamination in the arctic tundra ecosystem

L Poissant, HH Zhang, J Canário, P Constant - Science of the total …, 2008 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) contamination in tundra region has raised substantial concerns, especially
since the first report of atmospheric mercury depletion events (AMDEs) in the Polar Regions …

Unprecedented increases in total and methyl mercury concentrations downstream of retrogressive thaw slumps in the western Canadian Arctic

KA St. Pierre, S Zolkos, S Shakil, SE Tank… - Environmental …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Retrogressive thaw slumps (RTSs) are thermokarst features created by the rapid thaw of ice-
rich permafrost, and can mobilize vast quantities of sediments and solutes downstream …

[HTML][HTML] Mercury isotope evidence for Arctic summertime re-emission of mercury from the cryosphere

BF Araujo, S Osterwalder, N Szponar, D Lee… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
During Arctic springtime, halogen radicals oxidize atmospheric elemental mercury (Hg0),
which deposits to the cryosphere. This is followed by a summertime atmospheric Hg0 peak …

Tundra uptake of atmospheric elemental mercury drives Arctic mercury pollution

D Obrist, Y Agnan, M Jiskra, CL Olson, DP Colegrove… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Anthropogenic activities have led to large-scale mercury (Hg) pollution in the Arctic,,,,,. It has
been suggested that sea-salt-induced chemical cycling of Hg (through 'atmospheric mercury …