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Gatineau Park foliage reveals local Cold War nuclear testing legacy

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For more than six decades, local scientists have collected sugar maple leaves from Gatineau Park to measure their radiocarbon levels, creating the longest continuous record of its kind. Now, a study of those leaves led by the André E. Lalonde National Facility for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AEL-AMS) located at the University of Ottawa shows that the effects of Cold War–era nuclear weapons testing have only recently disappeared from the local biosphere. The study, titled "Stored carbohydrates buffer Bomb and Suess radiocarbon effects in maple leaves across a 65-year Ottawa region record," w

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