Greenland ice core reveals history of pollution in the Arctic

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 13:35 in Earth & Climate

New research, reported this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that coal burning, primarily in North America and Europe, contaminated the Arctic and potentially affected human health and ecosystems in and around Earth's polar regions.

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