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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Unexpected anthropogenic emission decreases explain recent atmospheric mercury concentration declines.

Aryeh Feinberg, Noelle E Selin, Christine F Braban, Kai-Lan Chang, Danilo Custódio, Daniel A Jaffe, Katriina Kyllönen, Matthew S Landis, Sarah R Leeson, Winston Luke and 7 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Climate change amplifies neurotoxic methylmercury threat to Asian fish consumers.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Unexpected anthropogenic emission decreases explain recent atmospheric mercury concentration declines.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Aryeh FeinbergInstitute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0001-5325-4731
Noelle E SelinInstitute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-6396-5622
Christine F BrabanUnited Kingdom Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0QB, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4275-0152
Kai-Lan ChangCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309.ORCID 0000-0001-5812-3183
Danilo CustódioMax-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie, Jena D-07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0770-6589
Daniel A JaffeSchool of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, Physical Sciences Division, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA 98011.ORCID 0000-0003-1965-9051
Katriina KyllönenAtmospheric Composition Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki 00560, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-8211-5634
Matthew S LandisUnited States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711.ORCID 0000-0002-8742-496X
Sarah R LeesonUnited Kingdom Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0QB, United Kingdom.
Winston LukeNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD 20740.ORCID 0000-0002-1993-2241
Koketso M MolepoInstitute of Coastal Environmental Chemistry, Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht 21502, Germany.
Marijana MurovecSlovenian Environment Agency, Environment and Nature protection Office, Air Quality Division, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia.
Michelle G Nerentorp MastromonacoIVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Gothenburg SE-411 33, Sweden.
Katrine Aspmo PfaffhuberNorwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Kjeller 2027, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-4714-3765
Julian RüdigerAir Monitoring Network, German Environment Agency, Langen 63225, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9785-0970
Guey-Rong SheuDepartment of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University, Taoyuan 320, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-6138-5966
Vincent L St LouisDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5405-1522

Funding

NSF (NSF) 1924148Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF) P2EZP2_195424
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anthropogenic activities emit ~2,000 Mg y

Indexed as

anthropogenic emissionsatmospheric observationschemistry-transport modelmercury trendsMinamata Convention on Mercury

Identifiers

PMID39378086
PMCPMC11494326

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