Leaded gasoline left toxic layers in remote Andes glaciers

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Toxic lead buried in icy layers of an Andes glacier reveals that leaded gasoline was the region's worst polluter in the past 2,000 years, a new study reports.

Traces of lead pollution from precolonial mines and metallurgy (such as the extraction of silver...

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