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Wildfires can cause glaciers to melt from over a thousand miles away, scientists find

By Chris Mooney, The Washington Post June 26, 2017
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For the first time, scientists have tracked soot from Canadian wildfires all the way to the Greenland ice sheet where the dark, sunlight-absorbing particles landed on the ice and had the potential to significantly enhance its melting — pointing to a possible new driver of sea level rise.

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