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Glaciers and the Industrial Revolution
March 13, 2012 | Woods Hole Research Center

“New clues as to how the Earth’s remote ecosystems have been influenced by the industrial revolution are locked, frozen in the ice of glaciers. [...] Globally, glacier ice loss is accelerating, driven in part by the deposition of carbon in the form of soot or “black carbon,” which darkens glacier surfaces and increases their absorption of light and heat.” Quoted from the Woods Hole Research Center press release.


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