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The influence of global climate change on the environmental fate of anthropogenic pollution released from the permafrost
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This article presents a review of information related to the influence of potential permafrost degradation on the environmental fate of chemical species which are relased and stored, classified as potential influence in future Antarctic environment. Considering all data regarding climate change prediction, this topic may prove important issue for the future state of the Antarctic environment. A detailed survey on soil and permafrost data permitted the assumption that this medium may constitute a sink for organic and inorganic pollution (especially for persistent organic pollution, POPs, and heavy metals). The analysis of the environmental fate and potential consequences of the presence of pollutants for the existence of the Antarctic fauna leads to a conclusion that they may cause numerous negative effects (e.g. Endocrine disruptions, DNA damage, cancerogenicity). In the case of temperature increase and enhanced remobilisation processes, this effect may be even stronger, and may disturb natural balance in the environment. Therefore, regular research on the environmental fate of pollution is required, especially in terms of processes of remobilisation from the permafrost reserves.
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Danuta Szumińska Dr
- Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego Instytut Geografii
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- Category:
- Articles
- Type:
- artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
no. 651 part 1,
pages 1534 - 1548,
ISSN: 0048-9697 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Bibliographic description:
- Potapowicz J., Szumińska D., Szopińska M., Polkowska Ż.: The influence of global climate change on the environmental fate of anthropogenic pollution released from the permafrost// SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. -Vol. 651 part 1, (2019), s.1534-1548
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.168
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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