With spring finally here and warmer temperatures just around the corner, snow will slowly melt away, releasing us from the clutches of winter. However, that’s not the only thing that the melting snow will release. Researchers from McGill University and École de technologie supérieure in Montreal have found that urban snow accumulates a toxic cocktail from car emissions - pollutants that are in turn unleashed into the environment as the weather warms up.

Classified as: pollution, snow, department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, Department of Chemistry, Exhaust, Carcinogen, Yevgen Nazarenko, Parisa Ariya, École de technologie supérieure
Published on: 4 Apr 2017
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