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Ignoring Soot Pollution Means We’re 8 More Years Behind Schedule in Tackling Climate Change

Cairo is behind that smog… photo: Nina Hale via flickr TreeHugger has written about the growing acknowledgement that soot pollution is a major component of global warming–contributing a shocking amount to melting of glaciers in the Himalayas is just one example. Now, a group of researcher… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ignoring Soot Pollution Means We’re 8 More Years Behind Schedule in Tackling Climate Change

2010 So Far Has Been Hottest Year on Record: NOAA

photo: Tambako the Jaguar via flickr. Continuing the trend from the previous month, NOAA reports that May, the period from March to May, and from January to May all have had the hottest combined global land and ocean surface temperatures since records began in 1880. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NASA Taking First Trek to Arctic for Ocean Research

Photo Credit: U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Patrick Kelley NASA researchers are getting ready for a voyage to the Arctic to study how climate change is impacting the ecosystems and chemistry of icy north. The 5-week long mission, appropriately named Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment (ICESCAPE) begins June 15th, and by comparing the research team’s observations with NASA’s satellite views of the Arctic Ocean biology and sea ice, the team hopes to come back with answers on how our oceans and ice condi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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