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MIT team finds lead levels higher in Indian Ocean than northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans

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Today, 185 countries have stopped using leaded gasoline; six others, including Afghanistan, Iraq and North Korea, plan to phase it out in the next two years. Boyle and his students began collecting water and coral samples from the Indian Ocean three years ago. It’s a bit of a puzzle that we’re working on,” Boyle says.

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