History of ‘forever’ chemicals is written in Antarctic snow
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Persistent pollutants called PFASs lace the snow in Antarctica. Credit: Stefan Christmann/Nature Picture Library
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‘Forever’ chemicals, so called because they do not break down in the environment, have reached even the ends of the Earth. Now, scientists have more insight into the levels of these pollutants in Antarctica, thanks to rare observations taken across the continent’s ice sheet1.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00867-4
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