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Cleaner atmosphere means more Arctic sea-ice melt, study says
2015-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Anchorage Daily News: To protect human health and safeguard the environment, governments and utility companies around the world have worked -- successfully -- to reduced the amount of sulfur dioxide released into the atmosphere. But there's a downside to cleaning the air of sulfur dioxide and similar pollutants: Arctic sea ice is more exposed to solar heat, and more of it melts. Now, Environment Canada researchers, in a study published in Geophysical Research Letters, have put a number on the sea-ice melt that reduced...
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