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Soot from Canadian wildfires may have increased Greenland ice melt

2014-10-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Radio Canada International: Danish-born glaciologist Jason Box who has studied glaciers for two-decades is in the second year of a study called the Dark Snow Project. He is with the Geological Survey of Greenland and Denmark. They found that soot is covering immense areas of the ice-sheet, darkening and increasing its heat absorption, causing melting to increase. The soot may be from a variety of sources including burning of coal, diesel, dung and wood. Its also thought that greatly increased soot this year is due to...

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