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Published online 27 February 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030224-6
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Peat fuelled past pollution
Pre-industrial bog burners left cancerous chemicals in Scotland.
Scotland's forebears left a legacy of cancer-causing chemicals, researchers claim1. A new study shows that their peat-burning fires pumped out poisonous dioxins.
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