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Global Mercury Assessment 2013

Sources, Emissions, Releases and Environmental Transport

  • Author: UNEP
  • Publication date: January 2015
  • Page count: 38
  • Language(s) in this book: English
  • Sales number: 14.III.D.10

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ISBN: 9789211587272
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The report provides the most recent information available on worldwide atmospheric mercury emissions, releases to the aquatic environment, and the transport and fate of mercury in the global environment. The report emphasizes emissions to air from human (anthropogenic) activities, but includes releases to water because the aquatic environment is the main route of exposure to humans and wildlife. It is in aquatic systems that the inorganic mercury is transformed into the more toxic form, methylmercury, which can accumulate in fish and marine mammals consumed by humans.