Mercury speciation, transformation, and transportation in soils, atmospheric flux, and implications for risk management: A critical review

D O'Connor, D Hou, YS Ok, J Mulder, L Duan… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) is a potentially harmful trace element in the environment and one of the World
Health Organization's foremost chemicals of concern. The threat posed by Hg contaminated …

The assessment and remediation of mercury contaminated sites: A review of current approaches

CS Eckley, CC Gilmour, S Janssen, TP Luxton… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Remediation of mercury (Hg) contaminated sites has long relied on traditional approaches,
such as removal and containment/capping. Here we review contemporary practices in the …

In situ remediation technologies for mercury-contaminated soil

F He, J Gao, E Pierce, PJ Strong, H Wang… - … Science and Pollution …, 2015 - Springer
Mercury from anthropogenic activities is a pollutant that poses significant risks to humans
and the environment. In soils, mercury remediation can be technically challenging and …

Mercury stable isotope fractionation during abiotic dark oxidation in the presence of thiols and natural organic matter

W Zheng, JD Demers, X Lu, BA Bergquist… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Mercury (Hg) stable isotope fractionation has been widely used to trace Hg sources and
transformations in the environment, although many important fractionation processes remain …

Mercury biogeochemical cycling: A synthesis of recent scientific advances

MS Gustin, MS Bank, K Bishop, K Bowman… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The focus of this paper is to briefly discuss the major advances in scientific thinking
regarding: a) processes governing the fate and transport of mercury in the environment; b) …

An overview of soil pollution and remediation strategies in coal mining regions

A Rouhani, J Skousen, FMG Tack - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coal remains a very important source of energy for the global economy. Surface and
underground coal mining are the two major methods of coal extraction, and both have …

Global meta‐analysis on the relationship between mercury and dissolved organic carbon in freshwater environments

RA Lavoie, M Amyot, JF Lapierre - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In freshwater ecosystems, several studies have shown a strong linear relationship between
total mercury (THg) or methylmercury (MeHg) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) …

Extremely elevated methyl mercury levels in water, sediment and organisms in a Romanian reservoir affected by release of mercury from a chlor-alkali plant

AG Bravo, C Cosio, D Amouroux, J Zopfi, PA Chevalley… - Water research, 2014 - Elsevier
We examined mercury (Hg) biogeochemistry and biomagnification in the Babeni Reservoir,
a system strongly affected by the release of Hg from a chlor-alkali plant. Total mercury (THg) …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of slopes, rainfall intensity and grass cover on runoff loss of mercury from floodplain soil in oak ridge tn: A laboratory pilot study

J Li, L Wu, L Chen, J Zhang, Z Shi, H Ling, C Cheng… - Geoderma, 2024 - Elsevier
Mercury is recognized as a global pollutant. A large amount of elemental mercury was used
in the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, TN and Hg is still present in the water-shed …

Demystifying mercury geochemistry in contaminated soil–groundwater systems with complementary mercury stable isotope, concentration, and speciation analyses

DS McLagan, L Schwab, JG Wiederhold… - … Science: Processes & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Interpretation of mercury (Hg) geochemistry in environmental systems remains a challenge.
This is largely associated with the inability to identify specific Hg transformation processes …