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 …

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

D Cossa, J Knoery, D Banaru… - 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 …

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 …

Global health effects of future atmospheric mercury emissions

Y Zhang, Z Song, S Huang, P Zhang, Y Peng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that poses health risks to the global population.
Anthropogenic mercury emissions to the atmosphere are projected to decrease in the future …

Mercury stable isotopes constrain atmospheric sources to the ocean

M Jiskra, LE Heimbürger-Boavida, MM Desgranges… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Human exposure to toxic mercury (Hg) is dominated by the consumption of seafood,. Earth
system models suggest that Hg in marine ecosystems is supplied by atmospheric wet and …

A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes

L Schneider, JA Fisher, MC Diéguez, AH Fostier… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
Recent studies demonstrate a short 3–6-month atmospheric lifetime for mercury (Hg). This
implies Hg emissions are predominantly deposited within the same hemisphere in which …

A global model for methylmercury formation and uptake at the base of marine food webs

Y Zhang, AL Soerensen, AT Schartup… - Global …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Monomethylmercury (CH3Hg) is the only form of mercury (Hg) known to biomagnify in food
webs. Here we investigate factors driving methylated mercury [MeHg= CH3Hg+(CH3) 2Hg)] …

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

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

Linking the mercury biogeochemical cycle to the deep mercury cycle: A mercury isotope perspective

R Yin, X Wang, R Sun, L Gao, C Deng, Z Tian, A Luo… - Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) is a volatile, bioaccumulative, and toxic heavy metal, and its global distribution
is controlled by the Hg biogeochemical cycle in the atmosphere-land-ocean systems and the …

Mass-independent fractionation of even and odd mercury isotopes during atmospheric mercury redox reactions

X Fu, M Jiskra, X Yang, N Marusczak… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mass-independent fractionation (MIF) of stable even mass number mercury (Hg) isotopes is
observed in rainfall and gaseous elemental Hg0 globally and is used to quantify …