Proglacial river sediments are a substantial sink of perfluoroalkyl substances released by glacial meltwater

Abstract How climate change will influence the accumulation of pollutants in remote mountainous lakes is poorly understood. Here we collected sediment cores from two glacial lakes (one is small and close to glacier, and the other is large and far from glacier) in the Third Pole and quantified deposi...

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Main Authors: Yunqiao Zhou, Xiaoping Wang, Mengke Chen, Jianjie Fu, Tingting Zhu, Chuanfei Wang, Ping Gong, Lanxiang Wang, Jiao Ren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-02-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01223-y