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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 ...

Researchers from the German Max Planck Institutes of Geoanthropology and Biology Tübingen use genomic data to study the ...

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Highland Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States Forest Service for two hours. The cause of the wildfire is attributed to human activity, but the exact action that ignited ...