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 …

A synthesis of progress and uncertainties in attributing the sources of mercury in deposition

S Lindberg, R Bullock, R Ebinghaus… - AMBIO: a Journal of the …, 2007 - BioOne
A panel of international experts was convened in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2005, as part of the
8th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant. Our charge was to address …

A synthesis of atmospheric mercury depletion event chemistry in the atmosphere and snow

A Steffen, T Douglas, M Amyot, P Ariya… - Atmospheric …, 2008 - acp.copernicus.org
It was discovered in 1995 that, during the spring time, unexpectedly low concentrations of
gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) occurred in the Arctic air. This was surprising for a …

[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 …

How does climate change influence arctic mercury?

GA Stern, RW Macdonald, PM Outridge… - Science of the total …, 2012 - Elsevier
Recent studies have shown that climate change is already having significant impacts on
many aspects of transport pathways, speciation and cycling of mercury within Arctic …

Mercury cycling in freshwater systems-An updated conceptual model

BA Branfireun, C Cosio, AJ Poulain, G Riise… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The widely accepted conceptual model of mercury (Hg) cycling in freshwater lakes
(atmospheric deposition and runoff of inorganic Hg, methylation in bottom sediments and …

Understanding mercury methylation in the changing environment: Recent advances in assessing microbial methylators and mercury bioavailability

WL Tang, YR Liu, WY Guan, H Zhong, XM Qu… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Methylmercury (MeHg) is a neurotoxin, mainly derived from microbial mercury methylation in
natural aquatic environments, and poses threats to human health. Polar regions and paddy …

Environmental costs of mercury pollution

LD Hylander, ME Goodsite - Science of the Total Environment, 2006 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) has been used for millennia in many applications, primarily in artisanal mining
and as an electrode in the chlor–alkali industry. It is anthropogenically emitted as a pollutant …

Recovery of mercury-contaminated fisheries

J Munthe, RAD Bodaly, BA Branfireun… - AMBIO: A Journal of the …, 2007 - BioOne
In this paper, we synthesize available information on the links between changes in
ecosystem loading of inorganic mercury (Hg) and levels of methylmercury (MeHg) in fish …

A mass budget for mercury and methylmercury in the Arctic Ocean

AL Soerensen, DJ Jacob, AT Schartup… - Global …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Elevated biological concentrations of methylmercury (MeHg), a bioaccumulative neurotoxin,
are observed throughout the Arctic Ocean, but major sources and degradation pathways in …