If you read the latest press release circulating the web:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/acs-gmm102109.php
You would think that glacial melt was a significant POPs source. Those glacial lakes, just like the Arctic Ocean continue to receive POPs through the air from uses in the developing world. Let’s not get distracted. I sent the contact people the following:
Dr. Bogdal and Mr. […]

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Way back in the last century, from 1972 to 1985, when governments cared more about heath protection, the developed nations of the world banned PCBs and persistent pesticides such as chlordane, toxaphene, DDT, Mirex, Lindane Aldrin, and Dieldin. When circumpolar scientists studied the devastation to Arctic wildlife and human health from these compounds, they determined […]

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