Heavy Metals Now Dangerously Contaminate Snow & Soil Atop Mount Everest

photo: Rupert Taylor-Price / Creative Commons Is there no place on the planet where human-caused pollution has not reached? Scientists have discovered that both the snow and soil on Mount Everest now contains dangerous levels of arsenic and cadmium, most brought to the roof of the world thanks to the

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Heavy Metals Now Dangerously Contaminate Snow & Soil Atop Mount Everest

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