CLIMATE RESEARCH
A team of French scientists
drill cores from a coral reef off
Martinique. For the first time
they tap and analyze a climate
archive that involves a pollutant.
Toxic lead isotopes from leaded
fuel, assimilated by corals in
their carbonate skeletons, helps
them gather data on atmospheric
and marine circulation during
the past 100 years.

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