Is low-level environmental mercury exposure of concern to human health?

P Holmes, KAF James, LS Levy - Science of the total environment, 2009 - Elsevier
Mercury has long been recognised as toxic, principally in relation to its effects on humans
following acute or prolonged high-level occupational exposures and, in the latter half of the …

A review of worldwide atmospheric mercury measurements

F Sprovieri, N Pirrone, R Ebinghaus… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - acp.copernicus.org
A large number of activities have been carried out to characterise the levels of mercury (Hg)
species in ambient air and precipitation, in order to understand how they vary over time and …

Role of the ocean in the global mercury cycle

RP Mason, GR Sheu - Global biogeochemical cycles, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Air‐sea exchange of mercury (Hg) is a critical part of the global Hg cycle as it determines, to
a large degree, the response time of the biosphere to changes in mercury inputs. Recent …

Atmospheric mercury concentrations observed at ground-based monitoring sites globally distributed in the framework of the GMOS network

F Sprovieri, N Pirrone, M Bencardino… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Long-term monitoring of data of ambient mercury (Hg) on a global scale to assess its
emission, transport, atmospheric chemistry, and deposition processes is vital to …

Global source attribution for mercury deposition in the United States

C Seigneur, K Vijayaraghavan, K Lohman… - … science & technology, 2004 - ACS Publications
A multiscale modeling system that consists of a global chemical transport model (CTM) and
a nested continental CTM was used to simulate the global atmospheric fate and transport of …

A review of studies on atmospheric mercury in China

X Fu, X Feng, J Sommar, S Wang - Science of the Total Environment, 2012 - Elsevier
Due to the fast develo** economy, mercury (Hg) emissions to the atmosphere from
Chinese mainland have increased rapidly in recent years. Consequently, this issue has …

[BOOK][B] Antarctic ecosystems: environmental contamination, climate change, and human impact

R Bargagli - 2005 - Springer
The image of Antarctica as a symbol of the last great wilderness and pristine environment
has changed considerably in the last two decades. Environmental problems such as the …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal and spatial biomonitoring of atmospheric heavy metal pollution using moss bags in **chang

HT Mao, XM Wang, N Wu, LX Chen, M Yuan… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metal air pollution poses a serious threat to human health and the environment in
Chinese tourist cities. In this study, we investigated the temporal and spatial variations of …

Air contamination by mercury, emissions and transformations—a review

B Gworek, W Dmuchowski, AH Baczewska… - Water, Air, & Soil …, 2017 - Springer
The present and future air contamination by mercury is and will continue to be a serious risk
for human health. This publication presents a review of the literature dealing with the issues …

Global observations and modeling of atmosphere–surface exchange of elemental mercury: a critical review

W Zhu, CJ Lin, X Wang, J Sommar… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Reliable quantification of air–surface fluxes of elemental Hg vapor (Hg 0) is crucial for
understanding mercury (Hg) global biogeochemical cycles. There have been extensive …