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 …

Climate change and mercury in the Arctic: biotic interactions

MA McKinney, J Chételat, SM Burke, KH Elliott… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Global climate change has led to profound alterations of the Arctic environment and
ecosystems, with potential secondary effects on mercury (Hg) within Arctic biota. This review …

The influence of global climate change on the environmental fate of persistent organic pollutants: A review with emphasis on the Northern Hemisphere and the Arctic …

J Ma, H Hung, RW Macdonald - Global and Planetary Change, 2016 - Elsevier
Following worldwide bans and restrictions on the use of many persistent organic pollutants
(POPs) from the late 1970s, their regional and global distributions have become governed …

Anthropogenic contributions to mercury levels in present-day Arctic animals—a review

R Dietz, PM Outridge, KA Hobson - Science of the Total Environment, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Because of concern about the recently increasing levels of biological Hg in
some areas of the Arctic, we examined the literature concerning the long-term changes of …

Mercury in Arctic marine ecosystems: Sources, pathways and exposure

JL Kirk, I Lehnherr, M Andersson, BM Braune… - Environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
Mercury in the Arctic is an important environmental and human health issue. The reliance of
Northern Peoples on traditional foods, such as marine mammals, for subsistence means that …

[HTML][HTML] Mercury in the marine environment of the Canadian Arctic: review of recent findings

B Braune, J Chételat, M Amyot, T Brown… - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
This review summarizes data and information which have been generated on mercury (Hg)
in the marine environment of the Canadian Arctic since the previous Canadian Arctic …

How closely do mercury trends in fish and other aquatic wildlife track those in the atmosphere?–Implications for evaluating the effectiveness of the Minamata …

F Wang, PM Outridge, X Feng, B Meng… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Minamata Convention to reduce anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions
entered into force in 2017, and attention is now focused on how to best monitor its …

The distribution and trends of persistent organic pollutants and mercury in marine mammals from Canada's Eastern Arctic

TM Brown, RW Macdonald, DCG Muir… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Arctic contaminant research in the marine environment has focused on organohalogen
compounds and mercury mainly because they are bioaccumulative, persistent and toxic …

Increasing contaminant burdens in an Arctic fish, burbot (Lota lota), in a warming climate

J Carrie, F Wang, H Sanei, RW Macdonald… - Environmental …, 2010 - ACS Publications
The temporal patterns of mercury (Hg), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and other
contaminants in Arctic aquatic biota are usually attributed to changing atmospheric sources …

A review of ecological impacts of global climate change on persistent organic pollutant and mercury pathways and exposures in arctic marine ecosystems

MA McKinney, S Pedro, R Dietz, C Sonne… - Current …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Bioaccumulative and biomagnifying contaminants, such as persistent organic pollutants
(POPs) and mercury (Hg), have for decades been recognized as a health concern in arctic …