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South Skua contains high levels of pollutants even if it lives in Antarctica
Published Oct. 26, 2020 2:32 PM

Previous studies have shown that South Polar Skua is one of the Antarctic species with the highest levels of biomagnified pollutants, which for some substances are just as high as for Arctic species. This is in spite of Antarctic areas being far more remote and untouched by humans than the Arctic.