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 …

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 …

Mercury as a global pollutant: sources, pathways, and effects

CT Driscoll, RP Mason, HM Chan… - … science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
Mercury (Hg) is a global pollutant that affects human and ecosystem health. We synthesize
understanding of sources, atmosphere-land-ocean Hg dynamics and health effects, and …

[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 …

Anthropogenic alteration of nutrient supply increases the global freshwater carbon sink

NJ Anderson, AJ Heathcote, DR Engstrom… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Lakes have a disproportionate effect on the global carbon (C) cycle relative to their area,
mediating C transfer from land to atmosphere, and burying organic-C in their sediments. The …

Environmental archives of atmospheric Hg deposition–a review

CA Cooke, A Martínez-Cortizas, R Bindler… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Environmental archives offer an opportunity to reconstruct temporal trends in atmospheric
Hg deposition at various timescales. Lake sediment and peat have been the most widely …

Randomized open-label pilot study of the influence of probiotics and the gut microbiome on toxic metal levels in Tanzanian pregnant women and school children

JE Bisanz, MK Enos, JR Mwanga, J Changalucha… - MBio, 2014 - journals.asm.org
Exposure to environmental toxins is a 21st century global health problem that is often the
result of dietary intake. Although efforts are made to reduce dietary toxin levels, they are …

Atmospheric mercury depositional chronology reconstructed from lake sediments and ice core in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau

S Kang, J Huang, F Wang, Q Zhang… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Alpine lake sediments and glacier ice cores retrieved from high mountain regions can
provide long-term records of atmospheric deposition of anthropogenic contaminants such as …

Methylmercury biogeochemistry: a review with special reference to Arctic aquatic ecosystems

I Lehnherr - Environmental Reviews, 2014 - cdnsciencepub.com
There has been increasing concern about mercury (Hg) levels in marine and freshwater
organisms in the Arctic, due to the importance of traditional country foods such as fish and …

[HTML][HTML] The NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network: A national assessment of lake health providing science for water management in a changing climate

Y Huot, CA Brown, G Potvin, D Antoniades… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The distribution and quality of water resources vary dramatically across Canada, and human
impacts such as land-use and climate changes are exacerbating uncertainties in water …