Plants safely store toxic mercury. Bushfires and climate change bring it back into our environment&nbsp;&raquo;

Industrial activities like mining, fossil fuel combustion, and cement production release mercury into the environment. Shutterstock

30 January 2020

Climate change and bushfire may exacerbate recent mercury pollution and increase exposure to the poisonous neurotoxin, according to our study published in the Journal of Paleolimnology.

Mercury stored in plants is released during bushfires, suggesting Australia is particularly at risk.

Our study in the Venezuelan Andes examined how mercury deposits responded when the world warmed by about 3℃ between 14,500 and 11,500 years ago. (Scientists call this period the transition from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene).

We found the amount of mercury deposited in the environment at this time increased four-fold.

Read the full article on The Conversation co-authored by Dr Larissa Schneider and Professor Simon Haberle

	Plants safely store toxic mercury. Bushfires and climate change bring it back into our environment »
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	2020-01-30
发布年	2020
语种	英语
国家	澳大利亚
领域	气候变化
正文(英文)	Industrial activities like mining, fossil fuel combustion, and cement production release mercury into the environment. Shutterstock 30 January 2020 Climate change and bushfire may exacerbate recent mercury pollution and increase exposure to the poisonous neurotoxin, according to our study published in the Journal of Paleolimnology. Mercury stored in plants is released during bushfires, suggesting Australia is particularly at risk. Our study in the Venezuelan Andes examined how mercury deposits responded when the world warmed by about 3℃ between 14,500 and 11,500 years ago. (Scientists call this period the transition from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene). We found the amount of mercury deposited in the environment at this time increased four-fold. Read the full article on The Conversation co-authored by Dr Larissa Schneider and Professor Simon Haberle
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来源平台	ANU Climate Change Institute
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/228122
专题	气候变化
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