"This matter is urgent. Fish are dying. The situation has to be halted, and penalize the responsible contractor." ...

A new study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment revealed that lead pollution in the Aegean Sea dates ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

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

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Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought.

The oldest signs of lead pollution are found in the Aegean Sea region of Greece, dating back to ancient times, a new study ...

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity. Geoscientists conducted ...

Humans have been polluting nature since ancient times, this is the conclusion of a study. Human-caused environmental ...

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

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