Pervasive Arctic lead pollution suggests substantial growth in medieval silver production modulated by plague, climate, and conflict [Environmental Sciences]

Lead pollution in Arctic ice reflects large-scale historical changes in midlatitude industrial activities such as ancient lead/silver production and recent fossil fuel burning. Here we used measurements in a broad array of 13 accurately dated ice cores from Greenland and Severnaya Zemlya to document spatial and temporal changes in Arctic...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - July 22, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Joseph R. McConnell, Nathan J. Chellman, Andrew I. Wilson, Andreas Stohl, Monica M. Arienzo, Sabine Eckhardt, Diedrich Fritzsche, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Thomas Opel, Philip F. Place, Jorgen Peder Steffensen Tags: Social Sciences Source Type: research