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 …

Heavy metals and metalloid in aquatic invertebrates: A review of single/mixed forms, combination with other pollutants, and environmental factors

H Jeong, E Byeon, DH Kim, P Maszczyk, JS Lee - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Heavy metals (HMs) and metalloid occur naturally and are found throughout the Earth's crust
but they are discharged into aquatic environments at high concentrations by human …

[HTML][HTML] The future environmental and health impacts of coal

RB Finkelman, A Wolfe, MS Hendryx - Energy Geoscience, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In the United States, coal consumption in the last 12 years has declined from
1,045,140 million short tons in 2007 to 539,420 million short tons in 2019, a decrease of …

Dissolved organic matter thiol concentrations determine methylmercury bioavailability across the terrestrial-marine aquatic continuum

E Seelen, V Liem-Nguyen, U Wünsch… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The most critical step for methylmercury (MeHg) bioaccumulation in aquatic food webs is
phytoplankton uptake of dissolved MeHg. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) has been known …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in understanding and measurement of mercury in the environment: Terrestrial Hg cycling

K Bishop, JB Shanley, A Riscassi, HA de Wit… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
This review documents recent advances in terrestrial mercury cycling. Terrestrial mercury
(Hg) research has matured in some areas, and is develo** rapidly in others. We …

[HTML][HTML] Mercury contamination in fish and its effects on the health of pregnant women and their fetuses, and guidance for fish consumption—a narrative review

B Chen, S Dong - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
As a principal source of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids (3FAs), which provide vital health
benefits, fish consumption also comes with the additional benefit of being rich in diverse …

Global mercury concentrations in biota: Their use as a basis for a global biomonitoring framework

DC Evers, JT Ackerman, S Åkerblom, D Bally, N Basu… - Ecotoxicology, 2024 - Springer
An important provision of the Minamata Convention on Mercury is to monitor and evaluate
the effectiveness of the adopted measures and its implementation. Here, we describe for the …

Algal organic matter drives methanogen-mediated methylmercury production in water from eutrophic shallow lakes

P Lei, J Zhang, J Zhu, Q Tan, RWM Kwong… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Algal blooms bring massive amounts of algal organic matter (AOM) into eutrophic lakes,
which influences microbial methylmercury (MeHg) production. However, because of the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Decreasing mercury levels in consumer fish over the three decades of increasing mercury emissions in China

H Zhang, W Wang, C Lin, X Feng, J Shi, G Jiang… - Eco-Environment & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fish consumption is the primary dietary route of human exposure to methylmercury. It has
been well documented that elevated mercury concentration in fish in North America and …