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How Arctic ice cores prove lead pollution may in Ancient Rome have caused empire-wide cognitive decline

RENO, Nev. — Lead pollution from Roman mining and metal production may have lowered intelligence levels across the vast Roman Empire nearly 2,000 years ago, new research suggests. Scientists from the ...
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Ancient lead pollution may have lowered IQs across the Roman Empire

The Industrial Revolution was undeniably a major turning point in history. Beginning in the late 1700’s, human environmental impacts reached previously impossible new heights. Yet pollution wasn’t ...
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Roman Empire’s lead pollution was high enough to lower IQs, study says

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire as its coin-based currency accelerated trade, filled tax coffers and funded military conquests. But the empire’s mining and extracting of silver was also ...
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Ancient lead pollution may have lowered IQs across the Roman Empire

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Roman Lead Exposure Investigated

RENO, NEVADA—According to an NBC News report, an analysis of an ice core from Greenland conducted by climate and environmental scientist Joe McConnell of the Desert Research Institute and his ...