Mercury Pollution: Atmosphere, Rivers to Ocean

How mercury gets into the sea (University of Basel; 29 September 2021)

https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/How-mercury-gets-into-the-sea.html

A River of Mercurypanoramio, heavenscape; CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

Also…

Rivers Are Largest Global Source of Mercury in Coastal Oceans (Geoffrey GILLER, School of the Environment – Yale University; August 13, 2021)

https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/rivers-are-largest-global-source-of-mercury-in-oceans

Selected Research Publications:

Mercury export from Arctic great rivers (ZOLKOS et al., 2020)

https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10188316

Mercury pollution of riverine sediments in a typical irrigation area in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region (MENG et al., 2020)

http://ir.rcees.ac.cn/bitstream/311016/44960/1/Mercury%20pollution%20of%20riverine%20sediments%20in%20a%20typical%20irrigation%20area%20in%20the%20Beijing%E2%80%93Tianjin%E2%80%93Hebei%20region.pdf

A Coupled Global Atmosphere-Ocean Model for Air-Sea Exchange of Mercury: Insights into Wet Deposition and Atmospheric Redox Chemistry (ZHANG et al., 2019)

http://47.110.237.248/papers/Zhang-EST-2019.pdf

Geochemical processes of mercury transformation in the river-sea system (NGUYEN, 2019)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/315/5/052039/pdf

Global biogeochemical implications of mercury discharges from rivers and sediment burial (AMOS et al., 2014)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es502134t

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