Mountain catchments provide for the livelihood of more than half of humankind, and have
become a key destination for tourist and recreation activities globally. Mountain ecosystems …

While the ubiquity and rising abundance of microplastic contamination is becoming
increasingly well-known, there is very little empirical data for the scale of their historical …

Peatlands are a major terrestrial carbon store and a persistent natural carbon sink during the
Holocene, but there is considerable uncertainty over the fate of peatland carbon in a …

The application of mineral phosphate (P) fertilizers leads to an unintended Cd input into
agricultural systems, which might affect soil fertility and quality of crops. The Cd fluxes at …

The factors and mechanisms affecting the fate of the associated Cd during the Fe (II)-
activated Cd-bearing ferrihydrite transformation remain poorly understood. Herein we have …

Zinc isotope ratios were measured in the top sections of dated ombrotrophic peat cores in
Finland to investigate their potential as proxies for atmospheric sources and to constrain …

Nickel may enter the environment from both natural and anthropogenic sources. In terms of
potential toxicity, anthropogenic emissions of Ni are more important than natural emissions …

The concentrations of major and trace elements in the organic layer of peat soils across a
1800-km latitude profile of western Siberia were measured within various dominating …

Peat cores were collected from five bogs in the vicinity of open pit mines and upgraders of
the Athabasca Bituminous Sands, the largest reservoir of bitumen in the world. Frozen cores …

Lead pollution history over Northern Poland was reconstructed for the last ca. 1300years
using the elemental and Pb isotope geochemistry of a dated Polish peat bog. The data show …