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 …

Sources of mercury contamination in aquatic systems were studied in a comprehensive
literature review. The results show that the most important anthropogenic sources of mercury …

Governments, international agencies, NGOs, and academics focus their projects' objectives
on monitoring mercury pollution in Artisanal Gold Mining (AGM). Rarely do these monitoring …

Mercury (Hg) is known as one of the major contaminants in the Amazon. The Tapajós River
basin, in the Brazilian Amazon, has diverse anthropogenic activities which increase Hg …

The accumulation of nine heavy metals in fine-grained sediments from the mangrove fringed
coast of French Guiana is evaluated. The dynamic features of the South American tropical …

Mangroves of New Caledonia act as a buffer between a lagoon of more than 20,000 km2
and the Island, which suffers intense processes of erosion resulting from urbanization and …

Mercury is one of the most dangerous contaminants on the planet. In recent years, evidence
of mercury contamination in the Amazon has significantly increased, notably due to gold …

A major obstacle to our ability to assess future impacts of climate and human activities on the
global sediment system is the lack of suitable timescales over which long-term processes …

The Amazonian indigenous peoples depend on natural resources to live, but human
activities' growing impacts threaten their health and livelihoods. Our objectives were to …

Publisher Summary The importance of trace elements (TEs) in soils depends largely on their
fraction that has immediate biological function, that is, the fraction of the total soil burden that …