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Canada: "Pollution In Our Melting Snow"

"TORONTO -- 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.'"

SPX had the story March 29, 2011.

Source: SPX, 03/29/2011