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Oh No You DDT
Melting Antarctic glaciers may be releasing DDT, says study |
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27 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:44 AM on 27 May 2008 Adélie penguins in the Antarctic are as chock-full of pesticide DDT as they were in the 1970s, even though global DDT use has dropped 80 percent in the past three decades, says new research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Researchers speculate that climate change is at fault -- honestly, is there anything climate change is not mucking up? -- as concentratio ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, toxics (all these topics) |
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