[CPEO-MEF] BIOTA, GLOBAL: Saglek Bay, Canadian Arctic

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PCB clean-up leads to quick recovery of Arctic wildlife.

Brown, TM, TA Sheldon, NM Burgess and KJ Reimer. 2009. Reduction of PCB 
contamination in an Arctic coastal environment: A first step in 
assessing ecosystem recovery after the removal of a point source. 
Environmental Science and Technology doi:10.1021/es900941w.
	


Synopsis by Karen Kidd and Wendy Hessler
Environmental Health News
December 11, 2009

PCBs at a contaminated military site in northern Canada were once high 
enough to affect the reproduction of nearby fish and fish-eating birds. 
Now, only eight years after the area was cleaned up, the levels in 
wildlife have dropped remarkably, researchers now report. The findings 
are the first to show that Arctic wildlife can recover from intense 
pollution if the contaminated sites in these very cold-weather regions 
are remediated.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/pcb-clean-up-arctic-wildlife-make-quick-recovery/



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