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Why the Smoke Pollution From the West is the Worst It’s Been in 10-Years

The story ‘Smoke Across North America’ first appeared on NASA Earth Observatory and was written by Adam Voiland. While plumes of wildfire smoke from western North America have passed over the northeastern U.S. and Canada multiple times each summer in recent years, they often go unnoticed. That is because smoke that spreads far from its source typically moves at a fairly […]

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Firebrains | July 23, 2021
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NASA: Pollution, Not Rising Temperatures, May Have Melted Alpine Glaciers

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently finished a study that shows that Europe’s glaciers may have begun their rapid melting in the 1860s due to soot from the industrial revolution.  It’s thought by NASA that this soot absorbed sunlight and greatly accelerated the melting of Europe’s glacier system. “If you look back through the 1600s and 1700s, the glaciers were big […]

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