The devastating health effects of lead exposure are well-documented, even at low levels. Modern studies highlight how lead ...

By analyzing ice cores from the Arctic that preserved detailed records of atmospheric pollution, study authors determined that lead emissions from Roman silver mining and smelting operations ...

To conduct their research, the scientists analyzed the presence of lead in ice cores from the Arctic — preserved there from the time of the Pax Romana, which began in 27 B.C. They found that as ...

But those activities also produced enough lead pollution to impair its citizens’ IQs, according to a new study in PNAS. “Detailed ice core records of Arctic lead pollution, together with sophisticated ...

lots of previous work has established the prevalence of lead contamination in antiquity through analysis of ice and peat cores, skeletal remains, and ancient infrastructure. But the study is ...

The researchers also determined that the levels of lead in the ice core rose and fell with economic conditions in Rome over a period of about 1,000 years. For example, lead levels rose when Rome ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

The study authors analyzed three ice cores from the Arctic spanning the period 500 B.C. to A.D. 600. This revealed that European atmospheric lead concentrations increased sharply around 15 B.

Scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution records preserved in Arctic ice cores to identify periods of lead pollution throughout the Roman Empire, and now new research expands on this ...

DRI scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution records preserved in Arctic ice cores to identify periods of lead pollution throughout the Roman Empire, and now new research expands on ...

DRI scientists used Arctic ice core records to reconstruct historic atmospheric lead pollution in Ancient Rome and link exposure to cognitive declines Lead exposure is responsible for a range of ...