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Sea birds fly pollution to the Arctic

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Bird guano makes for hotspots of toxins.

Pollution is swept to pristine areas of the Arctic by wind and sea. But now researchers have pinned down an important mode of transport that creates local toxic hotspots: sea birds.

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  1. BlaisJ., et al. Science, 309. 445 (2005).

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von Bubnoff, A. Sea birds fly pollution to the Arctic. Nature (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/news050711-13

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