Archive for November 2025
Mercury in a Warming Arctic: Science, Public Health Hazards and the Path Forward
As the Arctic warms at four times the global rate, Alaska is experiencing rapid permafrost thaw that is reshaping landscapes, ecosystems, and community health. For millennia, mercury has accumulated and remained locked within frozen soils—absorbed by Arctic vegetation from global atmospheric circulation and deposited as plants died and decomposed. As climate change accelerates thaw, this…
Read MoreACAT’s November Newsletter
Welcome to our November newsletter! This month, we are celebrating major community milestones on both a local and global scale. Inside, we share international updates on the fight to eliminate persistent organic pollutants, recap our latest collaborative conversations on community health, and warmly welcome our new Media and Communications Coordinator to the team. We are…
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