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

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 ...

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

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.

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 ...

Lead released from smelting in ancient Greece is the world’s first toxic pollution, experts say. View on euronews ...

or as far away as the Arctic in its ice. Lead pollution was evident more than 5,000 years ago, according to a core sample collected for the study from the Tenaghi Philippon peatland in northern ...

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 ...