Lead released in Notre Dame Cathedral fire detected in Parisian honey

Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 11:10 in Earth & Climate

Elevated levels of lead have been found in samples of honey from hives downwind of the Notre-Dame Cathedral fire, collected three months after the April 2019 blaze. In research outlined in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, scientists from UBC’s Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research (PCIGR) analyzed concentrations of metals, including lead, in 36 honey […]

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