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ScienceDaily: With birds chirping and temperatures warming , spring is finally in the air. But for University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) environmental chemist Torsten Meyer, springtime has a dark side.
"During the winter months, contaminants accumulate in the snow," says Meyer, an expert on snow-bound organic contaminants and a post-doctoral fellow at UTSC. "When the snow melts, these chemicals are released into the environment at high concentrations."
In a specially designed, temperature-controlled laboratory......
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Dark side of spring? Pollution in our melting snow
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 28th, 2011
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