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National Public Radio: Glaciers in the Alps of Europe pose a scientific mystery. They started melting rapidly back in the 1860s. In a span of about 50 years, some of the biggest glaciers had retreated more than half a mile.
But nobody could explain the glacier's rapid decline. Now, a new study from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uncovers a possible clue to why the glaciers melted before temperatures started rising: Soot from the Industrial Revolution could have heated up the ice.
Scientists trying to understand......
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Pollution, Not Rising Temperatures, May Have Melted Alpine Glaciers
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 3rd, 2013
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