Earliest European Evidence Of Lead Pollution Uncovered In The Balkans

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Sometime around 3600BC, people in the Balkan peninsula reached a major milestone: their mining and metal smelting created enough pollution for us to detect it today. Our research has revealed this was the beginning of the Bronze Age in the region, and the birth of large-scale metallurgy in Europe. To give some context for how …

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Subglacial valleys and mountain ranges discovered near South Pole

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The findings are the first to emerge from extensive ice penetrating radar data collected in Antarctica as part of the European Space Agency PolarGAP project and have been published in the journal, Geophysical Research Letters. Although there are extensive satellite data that help image the surface of the Earth and its deep interior, there was …

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