Natural history museum collections can help backfill environmental pollution data, a new study argues.

By Kiley Price

In the early 20th century, more than a million miners in Britain made a daily descent into the depths of the Earth to extract coal, the country’s main source of energy at the time. Joining them on their journey to the harsh, dark underground: bright yellow canaries, about the size of a coffee cup.

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