A research team led by Liverpool John Moores University scientists has discovered what could be the world’s very first polluted river, contaminated 7,000 years ago. In a now-dry riverbed in the Faynan Orefield of southern Jordan, the team found evidence of anthropogenic copper pollution. Wadi Faynan, where J.P. Grattan et …
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