New pesticide traces found at Arctic lake

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"Burial Lake, named after a nearby Eskimo burial ground, is a half-mile-long body of water north of the Brooks Range. The lake is far from any village, and even farther from the nearest fruit orchard, so why did snow from near Burial Lake have traces of a commercial pesticide?


Because pollutants travel staggering distances through the air, said Kim Hageman, a chemist with Oregon State University.

She is one of the authors of a paper about pesticides found in western national parks, including Noatak National Preserve in Northwest Alaska."