How does climate change influence arctic mercury?

GA Stern, RW Macdonald, PM Outridge… - Science of the total …, 2012 - Elsevier
Recent studies have shown that climate change is already having significant impacts on
many aspects of transport pathways, speciation and cycling of mercury within Arctic …

An overview of mercury concentrations in freshwater fish species: a national fish mercury dataset for Canada

DC Depew, NM Burgess, MR Anderson… - Canadian Journal of …, 2013 - cdnsciencepub.com
Fish mercury (Hg) concentrations have been measured over the last 30–40 years in all
regions of Canada as part of various monitoring and research programs. Despite this large …

Whole-ecosystem study shows rapid fish-mercury response to changes in mercury deposition

RC Harris, JWM Rudd, M Amyot… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Methylmercury contamination of fisheries from centuries of industrial atmospheric emissions
negatively impacts humans and wildlife worldwide. The response of fish methylmercury …

Differentiated availability of geochemical mercury pools controls methylmercury levels in estuarine sediment and biota

S Jonsson, U Skyllberg, MB Nilsson… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Neurotoxic methylmercury (MeHg) formed from inorganic divalent mercury (HgII)
accumulates in aquatic biota and remains at high levels worldwide. It is poorly understood to …

[HTML][HTML] The mercury science-policy interface: History, evolution and progress of the Minamata Convention

MS Bank - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) pollution is an important environmental and public health issue that has
garnered significant interest from policy makers and the global regulatory community …

A mass balance inventory of mercury in the Arctic Ocean

PM Outridge, RW Macdonald, F Wang… - Environmental …, 2008 - CSIRO Publishing
Environmental context. Mercury (Hg) occurs at high concentrations in Arctic marine wildlife,
posing a possible health risk to northern peoples who use these animals for food. We find …

Influence of natural dissolved organic carbon on the bioavailability of mercury to a freshwater alga

PR Gorski, DE Armstrong, JP Hurley… - Environmental …, 2008 - Elsevier
Bioavailability of mercury (Hg) to Selenastrum capricornutum was assessed in bioassays
containing field-collected freshwater of varying dissolved organic carbon (DOC) …

The fate of photoreduction of Hg (II) in aqueous solution by aged microplastic particles and their leached DOM

X Yang, C Ma, Z Li, T Wang, X Wen, Y He… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The transformation of Hg (II) and Hg (0) in aqueous systems governs the speciation and
biogeochemical cycling of Hg. However, with the increasing amount of microplastics in the …

Fish mercury levels appear to be increasing lately: a report from 40 years of monitoring in the province of Ontario, Canada

N Gandhi, RWK Tang, SP Bhavsar… - … science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
Recent mercury levels and trends reported for North America suggest a mixed
(positive/negative) outlook for the environmental mercury problem. Using one of the largest …

Effects of sulfate reducing bacteria and sulfate concentrations on mercury methylation in freshwater sediments

D Shao, Y Kang, S Wu, MH Wong - Science of the Total Environment, 2012 - Elsevier
Methylmercury (MeHg) is the most poisonous form of mercury (Hg) and it enters the human
body primarily through consumption of Hg contaminated fish. Sulfate reducing bacteria …