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A Critical Time for Mercury Science to Inform Global Policy

scientific article published on 20 August 2018

A new framework for approaching precision bioremediation of PAH contaminated soils

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

A robust framework to predict mercury speciation in combustion flue gases

scientific article published on 30 October 2013

Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining

scientific article published on 28 January 2022

Antagonistic Growth Effects of Mercury and Selenium in Caenorhabditis elegans Are Chemical-Species-Dependent and Do Not Depend on Internal Hg/Se Ratios

scientific article published on 03 March 2016

Bioaccumulation and speciation of selenium in fish and insects collected from a mountaintop removal coal mining-impacted stream in West Virginia.

scientific article published on 11 April 2014

Biochar and activated carbon act as promising amendments for promoting the microbial debromination of tetrabromobisphenol A.

scientific article published on 30 September 2017

Biogeochemical transformations of mercury in solid waste landfills and pathways for release

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Boron and strontium isotopic characterization of coal combustion residuals: validation of new environmental tracers

scientific article published on 04 December 2014

Challenges and opportunities for managing aquatic mercury pollution in altered landscapes.

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Cysteine-induced modifications of zero-valent silver nanomaterials: implications for particle surface chemistry, aggregation, dissolution, and silver speciation

scientific article published on 06 April 2012

Deforestation Due to Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Exacerbates Soil and Mercury Mobilization in Madre de Dios, Peru

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Differences in bulk and microscale yttrium speciation in coal combustion fly ash

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Differential Reactivity of Copper- and Gold-Based Nanomaterials Controls Their Seasonal Biogeochemical Cycling and Fate in a Freshwater Wetland Mesocosm

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

Direct in situ measurement of dissolved zinc in the presence of zinc oxide nanoparticles using anodic stripping voltammetry

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Distribution and Homogenization of Multiple Mercury Species Inputs to Freshwater Wetland Mesocosms

scientific article published in 2024

Effects of Natural Organic Matter Properties on the Dissolution Kinetics of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles

scientific article published on 10 September 2015

Effects of humic substances on precipitation and aggregation of zinc sulfide nanoparticles

scientific article published on 03 February 2011

Elevated Hair Mercury Levels Are Associated With Neurodevelopmental Deficits in Children Living Near Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Peru

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Environmental impacts of the Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston coal ash spill. 1. Source apportionment using mercury stable isotopes.

scientific article published on 3 December 2012

Environmental impacts of the Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston coal ash spill. 2. Effect of coal ash on methylmercury in historically contaminated river sediments.

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Environmental impacts of the coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee: an 18-month survey

scientific article published on 24 November 2010

Estimating historical atmospheric mercury concentrations from silver mining and their legacies in present-day surface soil in Potosí, Bolivia

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Estimations of historical atmospheric mercury concentrations from mercury refining and present-day soil concentrations of total mercury in Huancavelica, Peru

scientific article published on 26 April 2012

Formation of Zn- and Fe-sulfides near hydrothermal vents at the Eastern Lau Spreading Center: implications for sulfide bioavailability to chemoautotrophs

scientific article published on 19 May 2008

Hair Mercury Level is Associated with Anemia and Micronutrient Status in Children Living Near Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Impacts of coal ash on methylmercury production and the methylating microbial community in anaerobic sediment slurries.

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Influence of Sulfide Nanoparticles on Dissolved Mercury and Zinc Quantification by Diffusive Gradient in Thin-Film Passive Samplers.

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

Influence of amino acids cysteine and serine on aggregation kinetics of zinc and mercury sulfide colloids.

scientific article published on 27 March 2010

Influence of dissolved organic matter on the environmental fate of metals, nanoparticles, and colloids

scientific article published on 15 March 2011

Intracellular trafficking pathways in silver nanoparticle uptake and toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans

scientific article published on 11 November 2015

Legacy source of mercury in an urban stream-wetland ecosystem in central North Carolina, USA.

scientific article published on 7 January 2015

Long-term transformation and fate of manufactured ag nanoparticles in a simulated large scale freshwater emergent wetland

scientific article published on 30 April 2012

Mechanism of silver nanoparticle toxicity is dependent on dissolved silver and surface coating in Caenorhabditis elegans

scientific article published on 29 December 2011

Mechanisms regulating mercury bioavailability for methylating microorganisms in the aquatic environment: a critical review.

scientific article published on 27 February 2013

Mercury Exposure and Poor Nutritional Status Reduce Response to Six Expanded Program on Immunization Vaccines in Children: An Observational Cohort Study of Communities Affected by Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

Mercury hair levels and factors that influence exposure for residents of Huancavelica, Peru.

scientific article published on 3 December 2014

Methylation of mercury by bacteria exposed to dissolved, nanoparticulate, and microparticulate mercuric sulfides

scientific article published on 09 January 2012

Mobility of Four Common Mercury Species in Model and Natural Unsaturated Soils.

scientific article published on 7 March 2016

Modern science of a legacy problem: mercury biogeochemical research after the Minamata Convention

Nanoscale metal-organic matter interactions

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials in Coals and Coal Combustion Residuals in the United States.

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Net methylation of mercury in estuarine sediment microcosms amended with dissolved, nanoparticulate, and microparticulate mercuric sulfides

scientific article published on 23 July 2014

Photolytic degradation of methylmercury enhanced by binding to natural organic ligands.

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Precipitation and growth of zinc sulfide nanoparticles in the presence of thiol-containing natural organic ligands

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Precipitation of mercuric sulfide nanoparticles in NOM-containing water: implications for the natural environment.

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Pseudopolarographic determination of Cd2+ complexation in freshwater

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Quantification of Mercury Bioavailability for Methylation Using Diffusive Gradient in Thin-Film Samplers

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Ranking Coal Ash Materials for Their Potential to Leach Arsenic and Selenium: Relative Importance of Ash Chemistry and Site Biogeochemistry.

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Relative Contributions of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles and Dissolved Copper to Cu Uptake Kinetics of Gulf Killifish (Fundulus grandis) Embryos.

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

Relative Reactivity and Bioavailability of Mercury Sorbed to or Coprecipitated with Aged Iron Sulfides

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

Relative contributions of mercury bioavailability and microbial growth rate on net methylmercury production by anaerobic mixed cultures

scientific article published on 27 July 2015

Residential mercury contamination in adobe brick homes in Huancavelica, Peru.

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Residential metal contamination and potential health risks of exposure in adobe brick houses in Potosí, Bolivia.

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

River transport of mercury from artisanal and small-scale gold mining and risks for dietary mercury exposure in Madre de Dios, Peru.

scientific article published on February 2015

Selective Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Coal Fly Ash Leachates Using Liquid Membrane Processes

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

Selenium speciation in coal ash spilled at the Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston site

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Silver Nanoparticle Behavior, Uptake, and Toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans: Effects of Natural Organic Matter

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Silver toxicity across salinity gradients: the role of dissolved silver chloride species (AgCl x ) in Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) and medaka (Oryzias latipes) early life-stage toxicity

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Size-Based Differential Transport, Uptake, and Mass Distribution of Ceria (CeO2) Nanoparticles in Wetland Mesocosms

scientific article published on 16 August 2018

Solving the problem at the source: Controlling Mn release at the sediment-water interface via hypolimnetic oxygenation

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Spatial, Temporal, and Dietary Variables Associated with Elevated Mercury Exposure in Peruvian Riverine Communities Upstream and Downstream of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining

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Speciation and bioaccessibility of mercury in adobe bricks and dirt floors in Huancavelica, Peru

scientific article published on 29 August 2014

Speciation of Mercury in Selected Areas of the Petroleum Value Chain.

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Stability of metal-glutathione complexes during oxidation by hydrogen peroxide and Cu(II)-catalysis

scientific article published in April 2007

Survey of the potential environmental and health impacts in the immediate aftermath of the coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee

scientific article published in August 2009

The impact of coal combustion residue effluent on water resources: a North Carolina example.

scientific article published on 15 October 2012

Thiol-Based Selective Extraction Assay to Comparatively Assess Bioavailable Mercury in Sediments

scientific article published in July 2015

Trends in the Rare Earth Element Content of U.S.-Based Coal Combustion Fly Ashes

scientific article published on 26 May 2016

Unraveling Changes to PbS Nanocrystal Surfaces Induced by Thiols

scientific article published in 2022

Utility of Diffusive Gradient in Thin-Film Passive Samplers for Predicting Mercury Methylation Potential and Bioaccumulation in Freshwater Wetlands

scientific article published in 2022

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