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Bookmark or Share- Global health effects of future atmospheric mercury emissionsNature Communications - Mercury is a neurotoxin and pollutant with enhanced emissions from anthropogenic activities. Here, the authors develop a global emissions, transport, and human...
- Basic Information about Mercury | US EPALast updated on October 11, 2023. This page contains information about products that contain mercury, mercury emissions, how you can get exposed to mercury, and the health effects exposure to mercury has on humans.
- Global Mercury Assessment 2018 - UN Environment Programme21 August 2019. This update to the Global Mercury Assessment 2013 provides the most recent information available for the worldwide emissions to air, releases to water, and transport of mercury in atmospheric and aquatic environments.
- What EPA is Doing to Reduce Mercury Pollution, and Exposures to MercuryEPA estimates that mercury emissions from chlor-alkali plants have been reduced by approximately 88 percent from the pre-2003 levels; this estimate includes reductions resulting from plant closures. In 2008 and 2011, EPA proposed amendments to these final standards. EPA's mercury emission regulations for mercury cell chlor-alkali plants
- Study: Global deforestation leads to more mercury pollutionAbout 10 percent of human-made mercury emissions into the atmosphere each year are the result of global deforestation, according to a new MIT study. The world’s vegetation, from the Amazon rainforest to the savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, acts as a sink that removes the toxic pollutant from the air.
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