Mountain catchments provide for the livelihood of more than half of humankind, and have
become a key destination for tourist and recreation activities globally. Mountain ecosystems …

Peat, especially from acidic mires (bogs), is a natural archive of past environmental change.
Reconstructions of past climate from bogs commenced in the 19th Century through …

Peatlands are a major terrestrial carbon store and a persistent natural carbon sink during the
Holocene, but there is considerable uncertainty over the fate of peatland carbon in a …

This article is intended as a tutorial review on the use of single-collector and multi-collector
ICPMS for isotope ratio determination. The monitoring and quantification of both induced …

Snowpack, which serves as a natural archive of atmospheric deposition of multiple
pollutants, is a practical environmental media that can be used for assessing atmospheric …

The Balkans are considered the birthplace of mineral resource exploitation and
metalworking in Europe. However, since knowledge of the timing and extent of metallurgy in …

Europe has been continuously polluted throughout the last two millennia. During the Roman
Empire, these pollutions were mainly from ore extraction and smelting across Europe. Then …

In this study the origin, behaviour and fate of anthropogenic Pb in sandy roadside soils were
assessed by measuring soil characteristics, Pb isotope composition and content. In 1991 …

Samples of lichens, snow and particulate matter (PM 10, 24 h) are used for the source
identification of air pollution in the heavily industrialized region of Ostrava, Upper Silesia …

Peat cores were collected from six bogs in northern Alberta to reconstruct changes in the
atmospheric deposition of Pb, a valuable tracer of human activities. In each profile, the …