{"id":115958,"date":"2026-09-11T15:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/publikasjoner\/cadmium-pollution-from-zinc%e2%80%90smelters-up-to-four%e2%80%90fold-higher-than-expected-in-western-europe-in-the-1980s-as-revealed-by-alpine-ice\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:10:49","slug":"cadmium-pollution-from-zinc%e2%80%90smelters-up-to-four%e2%80%90fold-higher-than-expected-in-western-europe-in-the-1980s-as-revealed-by-alpine-ice","status":"publish","type":"nva_publication","link":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/publications\/cadmium-pollution-from-zinc%e2%80%90smelters-up-to-four%e2%80%90fold-higher-than-expected-in-western-europe-in-the-1980s-as-revealed-by-alpine-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadmium pollution from zinc\u2010smelters up to four\u2010fold higher than expected in western Europe in the 1980s as revealed by alpine ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Estimates of past emission inventories suggest that toxic heavy metal pollution in Europe was highest in the mid\u20101970s for lead and in the mid\u20101960s for cadmium, but these previous estimates have not been compared to observations. Here, alpine ice\u2010cores were used to document cadmium and lead pollution in western Europe between 1890 and 2000. The ice\u2010core trends show that while lead pollution largely from leaded gasoline reached a maximum in ~1975 as expected, cadmium pollution primarily from zinc smelters peaked in the early\u20101980s rather than in ~1965 and was up to fourfold higher than estimated after 1975. Comparisons between ice\u2010core trends, estimated past emissions, and state\u2010of\u2010the\u2010art atmospheric aerosol transport and deposition modeling suggest that the estimated decreases in cadmium emissions after 1970 were based on overly optimistic emissions reductions from the introduction of pollution control devices and other technological improvements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_id":"","_status":"PUBLISHED","_sync_date":"2026-09-11 14:11:08","footnotes":""},"nva_tax_category":[1099],"class_list":["post-115958","nva_publication","type-nva_publication","status-publish","hentry","nva_tax_category-scientific-journal-publication"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nva_publication\/115958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nva_publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nva_publication"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nva_publication\/115958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"nva_tax_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nva_tax_category?post=115958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}