Canary in a coal mine: Survey captures global picture of air pollution's effects on birds

Friday, August 11, 2017 - 11:22 in Earth & Climate

Famously, the use of caged birds to alert miners to the invisible dangers of gases such as carbon monoxide gave rise to the cautionary metaphor "canary in a coal mine."

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