Drivers, dynamics and impacts of changing Arctic coasts

AM Irrgang, M Bendixen, LM Farquharson… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Arctic coasts are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and
the loss of permafrost, sea ice and glaciers. Assessing the influence of anthropogenic …

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 …

Exploring the multiple land degradation pathways across the planet

R Prăvălie - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Land degradation has become one of the biggest environmental challenges human society
is currently facing, which is why understanding the global pattern of this land crisis is …

Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling

JE Sonke, H Angot, Y Zhang, A Poulain, E Björn… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
Past and present anthropogenic mercury (Hg) release to ecosystems causes neurotoxicity
and cardiovascular disease in humans with an estimated economic cost of $117 billion USD …

Emergent biogeochemical risks from Arctic permafrost degradation

KR Miner, J D'Andrilli, R Mackelprang… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
The Arctic cryosphere is collapsing, posing overlap** environmental risks. In particular,
thawing permafrost threatens to release biological, chemical and radioactive materials that …

The costs of Arctic infrastructure damages due to permafrost degradation

DA Streletskiy, S Clemens, JP Lanckman… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate change has adverse impacts on Arctic natural ecosystems and threatens northern
communities by disrupting subsistence practices, limiting accessibility, and putting built …

Thawing permafrost poses environmental threat to thousands of sites with legacy industrial contamination

M Langer, TS Von Deimling, S Westermann… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Industrial contaminants accumulated in Arctic permafrost regions have been largely
neglected in existing climate impact analyses. Here we identify about 4500 industrial sites …

Potential decoupling of CO2 and Hg uptake process by global vegetation in the 21st century

T Yuan, S Huang, P Zhang, Z Song, J Ge… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Mercury (Hg), a potent neurotoxin posing risks to human health, is cycled through vegetation
uptake, which is susceptible to climate change impacts. However, the extent and pattern of …

In-situ low-temperature sulfur CVD on metal sulfides with SO2 to realize self-sustained adsorption of mercury

Q Hong, H Xu, X Sun, J Li, W Huang, Z Qu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Capturing gaseous mercury (Hg0) from sulfur dioxide (SO2)-containing flue gases remains a
common yet persistently challenge. Here we introduce a low-temperature sulfur chemical …

A review of carbon monitoring in wet carbon systems using remote sensing

AD Campbell, T Fatoyinbo, SP Charles… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Carbon monitoring is critical for the reporting and verification of carbon stocks and change.
Remote sensing is a tool increasingly used to estimate the spatial heterogeneity, extent and …