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September 15, 2013

Gas flaring and household stoves speed Arctic thaw
Laxenburg, Austria (SPX) Sep 16, 2013
Gas flaring by the oil industry and smoke from residential burning contributes more black carbon pollution to Arctic than previously thought-potentially speeding the melting of Arctic sea ice and contributing to the fast rate of warming in the region. The new study, published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics by researchers at IIASA and in Norway, Finland, and Russia, finds that gas flaring from oil extraction in the Arctic accounts for 42% of the black carbon concentrations in the ... read more

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