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Soot from Europe's Industrial Age May Have Spurred Melting of Alps
Soot, also known as black carbon, could have been the reason behind the abrupt retreat of the mountain glaciers in the Alps starting in the 1860s, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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