News tagged with pollution causes

Dirty snow causes early runoff in Cascades, Rockies

Soot from pollution causes winter snowpacks to warm, shrink and warm some more. This continuous cycle sends snowmelt streaming down mountains as much as a month early, a new study finds. How pollution affects ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jan 12, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 6

Green-glowing fish provides new insights into health impacts of pollution

Understanding the damage that pollution causes to both wildlife and human health is set to become much easier thanks to a new green-glowing zebrafish. Created by a team from the University of Exeter, the fish ...

Biology / Other

Apr 18, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0