Plastic pollution (including microplastics) has been reported in a variety of biotic and abiotic
compartments across the circumpolar Arctic. Due to their environmental ubiquity, there is a …

An important provision of the Minamata Convention on Mercury is to monitor and evaluate
the effectiveness of the adopted measures and its implementation. Here, we describe for the …

Ultraviolet (UV) absorbents and industrial antioxidants are contaminants of emerging
concern (CECs), but little is known about their distribution in Arctic wildlife, as well as how …

Compound-specific stable isotope analysis of amino acids (CSIA-AA) provides a method to
estimate baseline δ 15 N values of food chains, allowing less biased estimates of trophic …

Mercury (Hg) is globally-distributed, with severe toxic effects on wildlife. Methylmercury
biomagnifies within food webs, so long-lived, top predators such as seabirds are prone to …

Legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such as organochlorine pesticides (OCs) and
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), are known to persist in the marine environment; however …

Seabirds are often considered sentinel species of marine ecosystems, and their blood and
eggs utilized to monitor local environmental contaminations. Most seabirds breeding in the …

For decades, the northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) has been found to ingest and
accumulate high loads of plastic due to its feeding ecology and digestive tract morphology …

Seabirds ingest contaminants linked to their prey's tissues, but also adsorbed to ingested
plastic debris. To explore relationships between ingested plastics and trace elements …

Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were analysed in a high number of terrestrial
samples of soil, earthworm, bird eggs and liver from red fox and brown rat in an urban area …