Tag: soot
How dirty, soot-covered birds can track down pollution over a whole century
Back in the day when Chicago and Pittsburg were the world's Beijing and New Delhi.
Air pollution much more dangerous than climate change for global agriculture
Scientists have long known that climate change has a major negative impact on global agriculture, potentially even threatening global food security. ...
Alarmingly high mercury concentrations in the Arctic might be due to Siberian rivers
Besides ever thinning ice, permafrost melting, soot deposits, habitat loss, you might as well add another significant factor threatening the ...
Simple, cheap measures could reduce global warming and save many lives
An international team of scientists showed that simple, inexpensive measures to cut emissions of two common pollutants will significantly slow ...
Melting polar ice makes way for new shipping routes
Record low ice volumes in the arctic caused by global warming have been reported this year, and if there are ...
Sea level rise of up to 1.6 meters projected for 2100
It is no longer a question if multi-meter sea level rises will happen, but only of when. According to the ...
Soot responsible for rapid Arctic melting?
An international research team is in the land of snow and ice, in search of soot or black carbon, in ...
Fighting against soot – more important than ever
Most of the talk about global warming revolves around carbon dioxide, sometimes giving the false impression that it alone is ...
