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zopemaster
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published
Nov 05, 2009
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:15 AM
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filed under:
hydrological structure,
water quality,
natural standing waters / lakes,
ponds and lakes,
climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy
A new study has confirmed that melting glaciers release chemical substances that have long been banned and are not longer produced by industry. Researchers from Swiss education institutes took frozen sediment core samples from the Oberaar reservoir in the Grimsel area in Switzerland and used the layers to reconstruct the history of the lake back to when it was first established in 1953.
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