{"id":12443,"date":"2022-02-17T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/?p=12443"},"modified":"2023-12-13T11:14:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:14:02","slug":"elevated-mercury-and-pcb-concentrations-in-dolly-varden-salvelinus-malma-collected-near-a-formerly-used-defense-site-on-sivuqaq-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/publications\/elevated-mercury-and-pcb-concentrations-in-dolly-varden-salvelinus-malma-collected-near-a-formerly-used-defense-site-on-sivuqaq-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevated mercury and PCB concentrations in Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma) collected near a formerly used defense site on Sivuqaq, Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sivuqaq\u2019s proximity to Russia made it a strategic location for U.S. military defense sites during the Cold War. Our results suggest that the Northeast Cape FUD site remains a significant point source of mercury and PCB pollution and contributes to higher concentrations in resident fish, including subsistence species. Moreover, elevated Hg and PCB levels in fish near the FUD site pose a health risk for Sivuqaq residents.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sivuqaq\u2019s proximity to Russia made it a strategic location for U.S. military defense sites during the Cold War. Our results suggest that the Northeast Cape FUD site remains a significant point source of mercury and PCB pollution and contributes to higher concentrations in resident fish, including subsistence species. Moreover, elevated Hg and PCB levels in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,222,223,215],"tags":[276,267],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14784,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions\/14784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}