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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.
It’s also thought that greatly increased soot this year is due to......
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Soot from Canadian wildfires may have increased Greenland ice melt
Posted by Radio Canada International: Marc Montgomery on October 4th, 2014
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