They provide an updated mass balance of the Arctic land and ocean mercury cycle.
Apr / 12 / 2022
They provide an updated mass balance of the Arctic land and ocean mercury cycle.
Apr / 12 / 2022
Cossa and his co-workers summarized a critical review on the mercury budget, fate and health consequences in the Mediterranean Sea.
Mar / 23 / 2022
The study’s results hold promise that the implementation of anti-pollution measures under the Minamata Convention will likely result in a faster decrease of oceanic mercury levels than previously thought.
Nov / 18 / 2021
Researchers from the SCRIPPS, the Stockholm Natural Museum and the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography show the importance of sea ice composition on methylmercury budgets
Sep / 02 / 2020
Using new observations acquired during GEOTRACES Arctic cruises, a refined arctic mercury budget has been established
Jul / 21 / 2020
In the ocean, the residence time of mercury (Hg), is largely driven by two removal mechanisms: evasion to the atmosphere and downward export flux with settling particles. The later was […]
May / 06 / 2020
The UNEP Minamata Convention was ratified in August 2017 and aims to protect human health from mercury exposure by reducing anthropogenic, inorganic, mercury emissions. The most toxic and biomagnifying mercury […]
Mar / 18 / 2020
Mercury (Hg) concentrations in Canadian Arctic marine mammals were monitored during the last four decades and found to be highly elevated, frequently exceeding toxicity thresholds. Mercury concentrations in marine biota […]
Nov / 05 / 2018
As part of the GEOTRACES MedBlack cruise, the research vessel Pelagia occupied 12 full-depth stations in the Black Sea along an East-West transect between July 13th and 25th, 2013. In […]
Apr / 30 / 2018