Sentences with phrase «of black soot»

Often characterized by gaping black holes, undulating form, and sinuous organic lines, they have been consistently experimental in their materials and technique, beginning with the artist's early use of a welding torch to deposit velvety layers of black soot on paper, muslin, and canvas.

To investigate the possible role of black soot in causing glacial melt, a team of scientists from Chinese research institutes extracted ice cores from five locations on the Tibetan Plateau (Figure 1).

But another boost of black soot comes from record fires in the Canadian Boreal forest and Arctic this year.

This sounds incredible and evokes images of black soot and dirt clogging the air.

Mauri indicates that fresh snowfall on the glaciers tends to blunt the impacts of black soot on the glaciers (due to their altitude, they retain much of the fresh snow year - round in their accumulation zones).

«We can't expect this study to clarify the effect of black soot on the melting of Tibetan snow and glaciers entirely,» said Cao.

Reduction of black soot via cleaner energies would have other benefits for human health and agricultural productivity.

Besides emissions of greenhouse gases, humans are constantly changing their environment which does have an impact (e.g. turning a corn field into an asphalt parking lot or massive deforestation in the world's major tropical rainforests or laying down a carpet of black soot on ice sheets).