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鈥檚 not the only thing that the melting snow will release. Researchers from 9I制作厂免费 and 脡cole de technologie sup茅rieure 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.
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Published on: 4 Apr 2017
Yevgen Nazarenko (photo), Uday Kurien, Oleg Nepotchatykh and聽Rodrigo Rangel-Alvarado,聽with Prof Ariya have published a paper that demonstrates a substantial influence of snow on car exhaust pollution. In particular, the results showed that snow acts as a sink for toxic organic pollutants and nanosized particles from car exhausts. The article is published in 聽and has attracted much attention, now classified "hot" on the Journal website.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2016
