Pollution in Arctic carried by seabirds
{{date|July 15, 2005}}

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Research by a team from Canada have published a report in the magazine ''Science'' stating that seabirds are the main carriers of pollution in coastal ponds in the Arctic.

They showed that local sources of pollution are rare, meaning that seabirds played a proportionally greater role in local pollution. They do not produce pollution themselves, rather, they carry in other forms of marine pollution.

The researchers found levels of DDT 60 times higher, 25 times more  mercury, and 10 times higher hexachlorobenzene in ponds that seabirds frequented compared to nearby ponds birds did not use.

All the pollution was originally of human origin - industrial or agricultural.

== Sources ==
*{{source|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/309/5733/445
|title=Arctic Seabirds Transport Marine-Derived Contaminants
|author=Jules M. Blais ''et al''.
|pub=Science
|date=July 15, 2005}} (log-in required, use "goodbye" for both login and password)

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Sea ice terrain
Research by a team from Canada have published a report in the magazine Science stating that seabirds are the main carriers of pollution in coastal ponds in the Arctic.

They showed that local sources of pollution are rare, meaning that seabirds played a proportionally greater role in local pollution. They do not produce pollution themselves, rather, they carry in other forms of marine pollution.

The researchers found levels of DDT 60 times higher, 25 times more  mercury, and 10 times higher hexachlorobenzene in ponds that seabirds frequented compared to nearby ponds birds did not use.

All the pollution was originally of human origin - industrial or agricultural.
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