Sunscreen Contaminants Found in Arctic Snow For The First Time : ScienceAlert

The fingerprints of human activity are stamped all over the globe: in the microplastics and ‘forever chemicals’ that have wafted up to the Arctic and rained down over us; in the swirling masses of plastic refuse in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that few ever see; and in the greenhouse gas emissions that are still building up in the atmosphere.

Now, to add to that sobering list, traces of 13 ingredients commonly found in sunscreens and other personal care products have been found in the snowpack of five Arctic glaciers in the Svalbard archipelago.

“For some of these chemicals, this is the…