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Antarctica: Climate Change Exposes “Toxic Soup”
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One of the ways climate change will affect us will be in ways we do not expect. We may have climate models, but we cannot predict all the horrors that lie in store. Here is one such horror. The New Scientist has run a story about how “decades after most countries stopped spraying DDT, frozen stores of the insecticide are now trickling out of melting Antarctic glaciers. The change means Adélie penguins have recently been exposed to the chemical.” according to a new study.” Although the trace levels found will not harm the birds, the presence of the chemical could be an indication that other
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