Humans have polluted the sea with lead for far longer than we realised, study shows - Scientists say signs of heavy metal pollution date all the way back to Ancient Greece ...

For thousands of years, the Aegean Sea has been a crossroads of civilizations, from Bronze Age kingdoms to the cultural and military might of ancient Greece and Rome. But alongside their art, ...

Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece ...

Ancient Greece, renowned for its contributions to democracy and philosophy, also holds the unfortunate distinction of ...

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 ...

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated ...

Lead pollution in the Aegean Sea region may have begun around 5,200 years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

Exposure to heavily polluted air is already associated with liver disorders but a team from University of Technology Sydney ...

The findings give new insight into the dangers of urban wildfires that burn plastics and other chemicals in homes and property.

A surface inversion is preventing the normal mixing of air, meaning pollutants will remain trapped at lower altitudes.