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 …

Mediterranean mercury assessment 2022: an updated budget, health consequences, and research perspectives

D Cossa, J Knoery, D Bănaru… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Mercury (Hg) and especially its methylated species (MeHg) are toxic chemicals that
contaminate humans via the consumption of seafood. The most recent UNEP Global …

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 …

Evidence that Pacific tuna mercury levels are driven by marine methylmercury production and anthropogenic inputs

A Médieu, D Point, T Itai, H Angot… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Pacific Ocean tuna is among the most-consumed seafood products but contains relatively
high levels of the neurotoxin methylmercury. Limited observations suggest tuna mercury …

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 …

Analytical methods for mercury speciation, detection, and measurement in water, oil, and gas

TA Saleh, G Fadillah, E Ciptawati, M Khaled - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mercury related compounds are released in massive and alarming amounts due to
increased human activities such as the processing of hydrocarbons in the petroleum …

Isotopic Characterization of Mercury Atmosphere–Foliage and Atmosphere–Soil Exchange in a Swiss Subalpine Coniferous Forest

C Chen, JH Huang, K Li, S Osterwalder… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
To understand the role of vegetation and soil in regulating atmospheric Hg0, exchange
fluxes and isotope signatures of Hg were characterized using a dynamic flux bag/chamber at …

Environmental nanoparticles reach human fetal brains

L Calderón-Garcidueñas, ÁA Pérez-Calatayud… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Anthropogenic ultrafine particulate matter (UFPM) and industrial and natural nanoparticles
(NPs) are ubiquitous. Normal term, preeclamptic, and postconceptional weeks (PCW) 8–15 …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial community function and methylmercury production in oxygen-limited paddy soil

Z Li, T Wang, X Yang, X Wen, W Chen, Y He… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Methylmercury is a neurotoxic compound that can enter rice fields through rainfall or
irrigation with contaminated wastewater, and then contaminate the human food chain …

Mercury is present in neurons and oligodendrocytes in regions of the brain affected by Parkinson's disease and co-localises with Lewy bodies

R Pamphlett, DP Bishop - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Objective Environmental toxicants are suspected to play a part in the pathogenesis of
idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and may underlie its increasing incidence. Mercury …