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What can we do? | Arcrisk Results

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What can we do? What can we do? Proposing the above-mentioned strategies is a major contribution of the project to implementation of various EU and international policies with regard to reducing impacts on human health and the environment from various contaminants under climate change scenarios. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC);. The Arctic Council requirements and aims;. The regional marine conventions, including OSPAR, HELCOM, and MedPOL;. The contaminant-focused conventions, such a...

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Library | Arcrisk Results

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Here you find the references for the ArcRisk result website. Select a sort method. Alphabetical A to Z. Alphabetical Z to A. Young, C., Furdui, V.I., et al., 2007. Perfluorinated acids in Arctic snow: New evidence for atmospheric formation. Wöhrnschimmel, H., Tay, P., von Waldow, H., et al., 2012. Comparative assessment of the global fate of alpha- and beta-hexachlorocyclohexane before and after phase-out. Wong, F. and Bidleman, T.F., 2011. Wong, C. S. Environmental Health Criteria 101: Methylmercury.

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Results | Arcrisk Results

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Climate change has the potential to remobilize environmental contaminants and alter the pathways by which harmful chemicals cycle through the environment and enter food chains. To explore how climate variability and global climate change affects the routes and mechanisms by which pollutants are delivered to the Arctic, a suite of models have been applied. The ArcRisk target substances are PCBs, HCHs, DDTs, PFCs, PCNs, BFRs, lead, mercury, cadmium and some additional pesticides. Ldquo;Future environmental...

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Human Exposure & Effects | Arcrisk Results

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Human Exposure and Effects. Avoiding future adverse effects on human health from exposure to contaminants requires an overall strategy that integrates policies and measures to reduce use and releases of contaminants. Fish and marine mammals are major contributors to dietary exposure to contaminants in the Arctic. In other areas of Europe, fish and shellfish consumption is an important route of exposure. Human Exposure and Effects. A) The AMAP boundary of the Arctic (red line). The map shows ten key a...

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Emissions & Pathways | Arcrisk Results

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Model simulations conducted under ArcRisk suggest that climate change will affect contaminant pathways and levels in the Arctic and elsewhere. Models are useful and continue to be improved, but further improvements are needed. Emissions of contaminants and environmental pathways. Transport of POPs can be illustrated by “global fractionation”. They evaporate from the source – e.g. pesticides used in a southern agriculture. The pesticides are then transported with air furt...Emissions of legacy POPs such a...

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About Us | Arcrisk Results

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Climate change has the potential to remobilize POPs from snow and soil. Fusce pellentes risus in enim porta aliqua. Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. The Arctic is particularly sensitive to climate change and already exhibits clear impacts. Arctic Health Risks: Impacts on health in the Arctic and Europe owing to climate-induced changes in contaminant cycling. This website provides a summary of the results from research project ArcRisk (2009-2013). POPs are globally dist...

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Occurrence & Fate | Arcrisk Results

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Both legacy and more recently introduced organic chemicals can be found in Arctic marine foodstuffs. Much of the contamination is due to long-range transport. Climate change will affect pathways and mobility of contaminants in. Arctic snow and ice. Effects of a changing climate on contaminant levels in Arctic ecosystems will depend on how climate change exerts its greatest effect. Organic contaminants in the snowpack. Snow is a significant source of atmospherically derived contaminants of POPs to the ter...