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Centuries of mining turn saltwater lagoon into reservoir of toxic metals
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Study reveals that the concentrations of toxic metals of the old mining in the largest wet lake in Europe have decreased, but climate change and human activity can worsen the situation in the future.
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Centuries of mining turn saltwater lagoon into reservoir of toxic metals
According to a study by the Department of Physics and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), the Mar Menor saltwater lagoon in Murcia, Spain, the largest in Europe, contains sediments with levels of lead, arsenic, zinc, mercury, copper, and silver that exceed toxicity thresholds and values reported for similar coastal ecosystems worldwide. The findings are published in the journ…
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