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Beneath The Middle East, An Ancient Seabed Is Splitting From The Continental Plates
An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq is breaking off horizontally, researchers have shown in a new study. This huge ...
Red Sea crisis: supply chain issues set to continue despite Gaza ceasefire
Supply chains have had to deal with higher shipping costs, product delivery delays, and increased carbon emissions as a result of this diversion. The Gaza ceasefire gave some hope that the disruption ...
The oldest evidence for lead pollution comes from ancient Greece
Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece ...
Lead contamination in ancient Greece points to societal change
Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated ...
Ancient Greece and Rome’s Toxic Footprint Found in the Aegean
Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers analyzed sediment cores from land and sea, linking lead levels to ...