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 …

Research progress on heavy metals pollution in the soil of smelting sites in China

M Adnan, B **ao, P **ao, P Zhao, R Li, S Bibi - Toxics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Contamination by heavy metals is a significant issue worldwide. In recent decades, soil
heavy metals pollutants in China had adverse impacts on soil quality and threatened food …

Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling

JE Sonke, H Angot, Y Zhang, A Poulain, E Björn… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
Past and present anthropogenic mercury (Hg) release to ecosystems causes neurotoxicity
and cardiovascular disease in humans with an estimated economic cost of $117 billion USD …

Critical review on biogeochemical dynamics of mercury (Hg) and its abatement strategies

AD Singh, K Khanna, J Kour, S Dhiman, T Bhardwaj… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) is among the naturally occurring heavy metal with elemental, organic, and
inorganic distributions in the environment. Being considered a global pollutant, high pools of …

A green approach used for heavy metals 'phytoremediation'via invasive plant species to mitigate environmental pollution: a review

IU Khan, SS Qi, F Gul, S Manan, JK Rono, M Naz… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Heavy metals (HMs) normally occur in nature and are rapidly released into ecosystems by
anthropogenic activities, leading to a series of threats to plant productivity as well as human …

[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 …

An updated global mercury budget from a coupled atmosphere-land-ocean model: 40% more re-emissions buffer the effect of primary emission reductions

Y Zhang, P Zhang, Z Song, S Huang, T Yuan, P Wu… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
The effectiveness of reducing the environmental level of mercury (Hg) by controlling
anthropogenic emissions depends on the magnitude of re-emissions from the land and …

Quantifying soil accumulation of atmospheric mercury using fallout radionuclide chronometry

JD Landis, D Obrist, J Zhou, CE Renshaw… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Soils are a principal global reservoir of mercury (Hg), a neurotoxic pollutant that is
accumulating through anthropogenic emissions to the atmosphere and subsequent …

Mercury deposition and redox transformation processes in peatland constrained by mercury stable isotopes

C Li, M Jiskra, MB Nilsson, S Osterwalder… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Peatland vegetation takes up mercury (Hg) from the atmosphere, typically contributing to net
production and export of neurotoxic methyl-Hg to downstream ecosystems. Chemical …

Mitigating toxic metals contamination in foods: bridging knowledge gaps for addressing food safety

R Srivastava, Y Singh, JC White… - Trends in food science & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Reducing exposure to harmful substances in food is highly desired, especially
for infants, young children, and pregnant women. A workshop focused on understanding …