Preindustrial Pollution Pestered Peru
Feb 11, 2015•3 min
Episode description
Ice cores show a sudden rise in heavy metal air pollution in South America 240 years before the industrial revolution, probably due to metallurgy and mining. Karen Hopkin reports
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