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Greenland Is Getting Darker
2014-06-08 12:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: Greenlands white snow is getting darker. Scientists have generally attributed that darkening to larger, slightly less white snow grains caused by warmer temperatures. But researchers have found a new source of darkening taking hold: impurities in the snow. It can increase the speed of melting, says Marie Dumont, a remote sensing scientist at Météo France in Grenoble, who publishes today with her colleagues in Nature Geoscience. Scientists have known for years that Greenlands snow is getting...
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