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 …

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 …

Rivers as the largest source of mercury to coastal oceans worldwide

M Liu, Q Zhang, T Maavara, S Liu, X Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mercury is a potent neurotoxic substance and accounts for 250,000 intellectual disabilities
annually. Worldwide, coastal fisheries contribute the majority of human exposure to mercury …

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 …

Tundra uptake of atmospheric elemental mercury drives Arctic mercury pollution

D Obrist, Y Agnan, M Jiskra, CL Olson, DP Colegrove… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Anthropogenic activities have led to large-scale mercury (Hg) pollution in the Arctic,,,,,. It has
been suggested that sea-salt-induced chemical cycling of Hg (through 'atmospheric mercury …

Permafrost stores a globally significant amount of mercury

PF Schuster, KM Schaefer, GR Aiken… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Changing climate in northern regions is causing permafrost to thaw with major implications
for the global mercury (Hg) cycle. We estimated Hg in permafrost regions based on in situ …

Total mercury released to the environment by human activities

DG Streets, HM Horowitz, DJ Jacob, Z Lu… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
We estimate that a cumulative total of 1540 (1060–2800) Gg (gigagrams, 109 grams or
thousand tonnes) of mercury (Hg) have been released by human activities up to 2010, 73 …

A new mechanism for atmospheric mercury redox chemistry: implications for the global mercury budget

HM Horowitz, DJ Jacob, Y Zhang… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
Mercury (Hg) is emitted to the atmosphere mainly as volatile elemental Hg 0. Oxidation to
water-soluble Hg II plays a major role in Hg deposition to ecosystems. Here, we implement a …

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 …