Study by the Blue University McGill in Montreal, Canada:
Study says climate change could result in high rate of contaminants spreading in water.
The report, published on Nov. 6, says that warming temperatures and more precipitation are making it easier for subsurface contamination to spread.
“Increasing Arctic warming rates drive significant environmental change, including permafrost thaw and new groundwater pathway development, thereby increasing groundwater vulnerability to contaminant transport at the thousands of unremediated sites in the circumpolar north,” says the report’s introduction.
