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Even if the snow's not yellow you might not want to eat it
Published: 19 January 2016
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. It also became subject of a full聽feature聽in聽the聽, and the .
Reference: Y. Nazarenko, U. Kurien, O. Nepotchatykh, R B. Rangel-Alvarado, P. A. Ariya, "Role of snow and cold environment in the fate and effects of nanoparticles and select organic pollutants from gasoline engine exhaust",