The South Pole still has traces of Maori air pollution

The Moryans are often referred to as the original population of New Zealand, and the truth is, they did not live there for long. Only at 13^From Century, their ancestors came to the ocean archipelago – they may have come from Polynesia.

Not just some of the first Moriots, it appears now from American research this week Nature Began to emerge. The researchers concluded this was not from archaeological finds, but from air pollution that came with the spread of Morris in New Zealand. After all, meteorologists have discovered soot particles in ice cores in Antarctica, indicating a strong increase in emissions of these pollutants since the 1300s. Today suite is mainly released when burning fossil fuels such as coal, but that substance is also largely released during wildfires. Thrown into the air.

According to the researchers, the suit at the South Pole first goes in the direction of Morris. At the beginning of the 14th^From The century must have begun with their large-scale deforestation in New Zealand. Due to this, today only a quarter of the combined surface of the North and South Islands is covered by forest. Before the arrival of the Morris, it was 85 percent.

Forest burning in New Zealand would have peaked at 16^From Century, can be learned from the traces of the suit in the snow of Antarctica. This would include emissions of 36,000 tons per year. In the pre-industrial period, which is often considered to have the least human impact on the Earth’s atmosphere, it made Maurice one of the largest air pollutants in the region. This research is reminiscent of the discovery of the historic lead in the traditional Greenland ice of Roman metallurgy.

Of course, the smoke from the wildfire did not end at the South Pole alone. It fell in the South Pacific and Antarctica, where pollutants may have greatly promoted passion flowers. For example, Morris affected not only the composition of the air for miles around, but also marine life thousands of miles away from New Zealand.