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
[caption id="attachment_9058" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The yellow line depicts the artic ice surface level from the past 30 year average. The ...
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?
[caption id="attachment_6314" align="alignleft" width="244" caption="An international research team is exploring the Arctic in search of soot. Carbon deposited there as ...
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 ...