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Preindustrial Pollution Pestered Peru

Feb 11, 2015 · 2 min
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Ice cores show a sudden rise in heavy metal air pollution in South America 240 years before the industrial revolution, probably due to metallurgy and mining. Karen Hopkin reports

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