Snow laced with coal dust this month coated three towns in the industrial Kemerovo region, more than 3,000 kilometres (1,800 miles) east of Moscow. Toxic black snow is falling from the skies in a coal mining region of Siberia pic.twitter.com/xdvIvcaLK0 — SBS News (@SBSNews) February 20, 2019“It depresses you when everything around you is black. “Our children aren’t going outside to play at all,” she said, with the black snow likely to remain on the ground till the end of April. In pictures: Snowfall continues in G-B, other areasThe plant does not filter coal dust in any way before releasing it into the atmosphere, prosecutors said. The region where the black snow fell is part of Russia’s vast Kuzbass coal field, one of the largest in the world, which also has many highly-polluting metallurgical plants.

Source: The Express Tribune February 26, 2019 19:41 UTC