Mountain glaciers are melting rapidly due to global warming. This process is being intensified by increasingly extreme natural events, such as forest fires and air pollution from human activities. One of the main culprits is a tiny but powerful pollutant called black carbon (commonly known as soot) which darkens the surface of the snow and makes it met faster under the sun. But how much of this po ...[Read More]
Did you know: Soot is a melting agent for glaciers in Peru and China
Figure 1: Collecting snow samples from the Puruogangri Ice Cap on the Tibetan Plateau, China. [Credit: Stanislav Kutuzov]