Arctic AMAP

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) (2004) AMAP assessment 2002 persistent organic pollutants in the Arctic. AMAP, P.O. Box 8100 Dep, N-0032 Oslo, Norway, www.amap.no... 

ACIA, 2004. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. (2004) Impacts of a Warming Arctic, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, http //amap.no/acia. 

AMAP (1998) Arctic pollution issues a state of the arctic environment report. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, Oslo... 

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Hansen, J.C., 1998. Pollution and human health. In Wilson, S.J., Murray, J.L., Huntington, H.P. (Eds.), AMAP Assessment Report Arctic Pollution Issues. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). Oslo, Norway, pp. 775-837. 

Arctic Pollution, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Heavy Metals, Radioactivity, Human Health, Changing Pathways, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, 2002. http //amap.no/documents. 

AMAP (2002) Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program. http //www.amap/no/. 

The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) was established in 1991 to implement certain parts of the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy (AEPS), primarily providing reliable and sufficient information on the status of, and threats to, the Arctic environment, and providing scientific advice on actions to be taken in order to support Arctic governments in their efforts to take remedial and preventive... 

Metal pollution not only affects humans but also impacts on the entire ecological system. In the Arctic, reindeer and caribou have been documented to be accumulating Cd which has been linked to kidney dysfunction (AMAP 1997), while filter feeders, such as mussels, have also been shown to accumulate toxic metals such as Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn (Mubiana et al. 2005). Mercury has been found to be bio-concentrating at critical levels in the marine environment, with higher concentrations documented in predatory fish and in marine mammals such as ringed seals (AMAP 1997). This has resulted in subsequent bioaccumulation in human populations who consume large amounts of fish, such as the populations of the Faroe Islands in the Northern Atlantic, Maderia off the west coast of North Africa and the Inuit people of northern Canada (Grandjean et al. 1992 Renzoni et al. 1998 Wheatley et al. 1979). 

A new study carried out by Toronto University finds that, of the 3 PBDE flame retardants, neither decaBDE nor octaBDE is likely to be transported in the environment over long distances. The study clarifies recent reports from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) which incorrectly stated that PBDEs had been found in the Arctic when this should only have referred to the constituents of pentaBDE. 

As a result of concerns over the long-range transport of POPs to the Arctic, the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) monitors the levels of POPs such as HCB in air, biota (fish, marine mammals, and seabirds), and humans. AMAP s 2014 report [121] indicates that... 

AMAP Arctic Pollution (2011) Arctic monitoring and assessment programme (AMAP), Oslo... 

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