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Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.

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Welcome to the science podcast for May 18, 2018. I'm Sarah Crespi.

This week, online news editor David Grimm is here with a story on tracking silver smelting in ancient Rome by looking at ice cores from Greenland.

Sarah Gurr is here to talk about her research into the rise of fungi resistant to fungicides and what it means for crops and public health. And in a bonus book segment,

staff writer Jennifer Cousin Frankel talks about her review of the book, Bad Blood, Secrets and Lies,

and a Silicon Valley startup. Now we have David Grimm, online news editor for science. He's here

with a story on looking at Greenland Ice to track the activity of ancient Romans.

Hi, Dave.

Hey, Sarah.

So that's a good intro, but can you just make the connection for us?

It's not like ancient Rome conquered Greenland, right?

No, not as far as we know, but the ancient Romans were big polluters, which we often don't

think about.

But they, you know, they smelted their precious ores and clay furnaces and this to extract

silver for coins and other things.

And this belched a lot of lead into the sky.

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