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Science Centric: 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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The dark side of spring? Pollution in our melting snow
Posted by Science Centric: None Given on March 29th, 2011
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