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Ice core records uncover widespread air pollution from early 20th-century copper production
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About a century ago, the Anaconda Copper Mine complex near Butte, Montana, was emitting vast amounts of air pollution into the atmosphere. As small particles of arsenic and other heavy metals were carried by winds over the Arctic, storms eventually helped pull them to the ground, where they joined l…
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About a century ago, the Anaconda Copper Mine complex near Butte, Montana, was emitting vast amounts of air pollution into the atmosphere. As small particles of arsenic and other heavy metals were carried by winds over the Arctic, storms eventually helped pull them to the ground, where they joined l…
Researchers say air pollution controls 10 years earlier would have prevented an additional 60,000 tons of arsenic and 24,000 tons of lead pollution over much of North America
Ice core records uncover widespread air pollution from early 20th-century copper production | Since Then
