Challenges and opportunities for managing aquatic mercury pollution in altered landscapes

H Hsu-Kim, CS Eckley, D Achá, X Feng, CC Gilmour… - Ambio, 2018 - Springer
The environmental cycling of mercury (Hg) can be affected by natural and anthropogenic
perturbations. Of particular concern is how these disruptions increase mobilization of Hg …

Mediterranean mercury assessment 2022: an updated budget, health consequences, and research perspectives

D Cossa, J Knoery, D Bănaru… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Mercury (Hg) and especially its methylated species (MeHg) are toxic chemicals that
contaminate humans via the consumption of seafood. The most recent UNEP Global …

Global prevalence and distribution of genes and microorganisms involved in mercury methylation

M Podar, CC Gilmour, CC Brandt, A Soren… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
Mercury (Hg) methylation produces the neurotoxic, highly bioaccumulative methylmercury
(MeHg). The highly conserved nature of the recently identified Hg methylation genes hgcAB …

Mantle Hg isotopic heterogeneity and evidence of oceanic Hg recycling into the mantle

R Yin, D Chen, X Pan, C Deng, L Chen, X Song… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The geochemical cycle of mercury in Earth's surface environment (atmosphere,
hydrosphere, biosphere) has been extensively studied; however, the deep geological …

Flood basalts and mass extinctions

ME Clapham, PR Renne - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Flood basalts were Earth's largest volcanic episodes that, along with related intrusions, were
often emplaced rapidly and coincided with environmental disruption: oceanic anoxic events …

[HTML][HTML] Mercury in European topsoils: Anthropogenic sources, stocks and fluxes

P Panagos, M Jiskra, P Borrelli, L Liakos… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) is one of the most dangerous pollutants worldwide. In the European Union
(EU), we recently estimated the Hg distribution in topsoil using 21,591 samples and a series …

GEOTRACES: Accelerating research on the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes

RF Anderson - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes (TEIs) constitute an active
area of oceanographic research due to their role as essential nutrients for marine organisms …

Mercury enrichments provide evidence of Early Triassic volcanism following the end-Permian mass extinction

J Shen, TJ Algeo, NJ Planavsky, J Yu, Q Feng… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Oceanic environments and biotas were in a state of near-continuous perturbation during the
Early Triassic, the~ 5-million-year interval following the latest Permian mass extinction …

Benefits of mercury controls for the United States

A Giang, NE Selin - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Mercury pollution poses risks for both human and ecosystem health. As a consequence,
controlling mercury pollution has become a policy goal on both global and national scales …

Methylmercury uptake by diverse marine phytoplankton

CS Lee, NS Fisher - Limnology and Oceanography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton may serve as a key entry for methylmercury (MeHg) into aquatic food webs
however very few studies have quantified the bioconcentration of MeHg in marine …