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Decades of Damage: Humans Are Contaminating the Baltic Sea With Toxic Metals


New research by scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and other institutions reveals that human activities have contributed significantly to the presence of toxic thallium in the Baltic Sea, accounting for between 20% and 60% of the total thallium pollution over the last 80

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