ZEPPELIN MOUNTAIN, Norway (Reuters) – From a remote snowcapped mountain in the European Arctic you can detect China in the haze.
In the apparently pure Arctic air, a research station on a Norwegian island mountain ridge finds tiny chemical traces from factories in Russia, pesticides in Israel or China’s coal-fired power plants.
“Some days we can definitely tell that the air has come from China,” said Kim Holmen, research director of the Norwegian Polar Institute, at the station which has spectacular views over fjords, mountains and glaciers of Spitsbergen
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