Atmospheric mercury deposition to forests in the eastern USA

MR Risch, JF DeWild, DA Gay, L Zhang, EW Boyer… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Atmospheric mercury (Hg) deposition to forests is important because half of the land cover in
the eastern USA is forest. Mercury was measured in autumn litterfall and weekly …

Mercury evasion from a boreal peatland shortens the timeline for recovery from legacy pollution

S Osterwalder, K Bishop, C Alewell, J Fritsche… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Peatlands are a major source of methylmercury that contaminates downstream aquatic food
webs. The large store of mercury (Hg) in peatlands could be a source of Hg for over a …

Observation-based mercury export from rivers to coastal oceans in East Asia

M Liu, Q Zhang, C Yu, L Yuan, Y He… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Globally, the consumption of coastal fish is the predominant source of human exposure to
methylmercury, a potent neurotoxicant that poses health risks to humans. However, the …

Recent decrease trend of atmospheric mercury concentrations in East China: the influence of anthropogenic emissions

Y Tang, S Wang, Q Wu, K Liu, L Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Measurements of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM), other air pollutants, including SO 2,
NO x, O 3, PM 2.5, and CO, and meteorological conditions were carried out at Chongming …

Gaseous mercury capture using supported CuSx on layered double hydroxides from SO2-rich flue gas

Q Hong, H Xu, Y Yuan, Y Shen, Y Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Gaseous elemental mercury (Hg 0) co-existed with high concentration of SO 2 is a typical
flue gas. Most traditional Hg 0 sorbents are restricted to practical application owing to low …

Chemical speciation of selenium and mercury as determinant of their neurotoxicity

CS Oliveira, BC Piccoli, M Aschner, JBT Rocha - Neurotoxicity of metals, 2017 - Springer
The antagonism of mercury toxicity by selenium has been well documented. Mercury is a
toxic metal, widespread in the environment. The main target organs (kidneys, lungs, or …

Spatiotemporal patterns of mercury accumulation in lake sediments of western North America

PE Drevnick, CA Cooke, D Barraza, JM Blais… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract For the Western North America Mercury Synthesis, we compiled mercury records
from 165 dated sediment cores from 138 natural lakes across western North America. Lake …

Resolving atmospheric mercury loading and source trends from isotopic records of remote North American lake sediments

RF Lepak, SE Janssen, DR Engstrom… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
The strongest evidence for anthropogenic alterations to the global mercury (Hg) cycle comes
from historical records of mercury deposition preserved in lake sediments. Hg isotopes have …

Mercury levels in Southern Ocean squid: variability over the last decade

J Seco, JC Xavier, AS Brierley, P Bustamante… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
The concentrations of total and proportions of organic mercury were measured in tissues of
355 individuals of 8 species of Southern Ocean squid (Alluroteuthis antarcticus, Bathyteuthis …

Evaluating EDGARv4. tox2 speciated mercury emissions ex-post scenarios and their impacts on modelled global and regional wet deposition patterns

M Muntean, G Janssens-Maenhout, S Song… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
Speciated mercury gridded emissions inventories together with chemical transport models
and concentration measurements are essential when investigating both the effectiveness of …