Vegetation uptake of mercury and impacts on global cycling

J Zhou, D Obrist, A Dastoor, M Jiskra… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Mercury (Hg) is a global pollutant that emits in large quantities to the atmosphere (> 6,000–
8,000 Mg Hg per year) through anthropogenic activities, biomass burning, geogenic …

A review of global environmental mercury processes in response to human and natural perturbations: Changes of emissions, climate, and land use

D Obrist, JL Kirk, L Zhang, EM Sunderland, M Jiskra… - Ambio, 2018 - Springer
We review recent progress in our understanding of the global cycling of mercury (Hg),
including best estimates of Hg concentrations and pool sizes in major environmental …

Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining

JR Gerson, N Szponar, AA Zambrano… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mercury emissions from artisanal and small-scale gold mining throughout the Global South
exceed coal combustion as the largest global source of mercury. We examined mercury …

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 …

Mercury pollution in modern times and its socio-medical consequences

LT Budnik, L Casteleyn - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Mercury plays a critical role in serious health problems due to environmental or occupational
exposures. Aquatic ecosystems are an essential component of the global biogeochemical …

Modulators of mercury risk to wildlife and humans in the context of rapid global change

CA Eagles-Smith, EK Silbergeld, N Basu… - Ambio, 2018 - Springer
Environmental mercury (Hg) contamination is an urgent global health threat. The complexity
of Hg in the environment can hinder accurate determination of ecological and human health …

Recent developments in environmental mercury bioremediation and its toxicity: A review

S Kumari, R Jamwal, N Mishra, DK Singh - … Nanotechnology, Monitoring & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg), a global pollutant produced by anthropogenic and natural means acts as a
bioacumulative toxin that severely affects our environment and human lives. Besides being …

[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 …

Environmental flow requirements of estuaries: providing resilience to current and future climate and direct anthropogenic changes

D Chilton, DP Hamilton, I Nagelkerken… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Estuaries host unique biodiversity and deliver a range of ecosystem services at the interface
between catchment and the ocean. They are also among the most degraded ecosystems on …

A retrospection on mercury contamination, bioaccumulation, and toxicity in diverse environments: current insights and future prospects

V Kumar, M Umesh, MK Shanmugam, P Chakraborty… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Owing to various industrial applications of mercury (Hg), its release into the environment at
high concentration is becoming a great threat to living organisms on a global scale. Human …