Sentences with phrase «soot falling»

Washington, March 4 (IANS) Soot falling on the snow covered Tibetan Plateau causes more rainfall over India and China, says a new study.

And when soot falls on snow or ice, as in the Arctic, its ability to trap heat from the sun helps hasten melting.

When soot falls on snow and ice it increases the amount of light and heat that is absorbed, just like any reflective surface.

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Posthuman pleasure captures the peak of human happiness, the moment just before «the softly - falling soot of ordinary life» returns to cover our joy.

10 There are occasional reports of red, yellow, or black snow falling from the sky, probably due to pollen, windblown dust, or ash and soot.

But soot also eventually falls to the ground.

Black carbon warms the atmosphere because of its ability to absorb radiation from the sun, but its effect can be especially pernicious in polar regions, where, falling on bright ice, the soot diminishes the regions» ability to reflect away heat.

As this soot rapidly falls to the sea surface, it is likely to be fertilising the oceans.

Smoke from those fires went around the world, but the soot particles falling on ice, especially in Greenland are a big concern.

When we come to it When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean When battlefields and coliseum No longer rake our unique and particular sons and daughters Up with the bruised and bloody grass To lie in identical plots in foreign soil

And the soot is falling on an melting the glaciers that create rivers that support hundreds of millions of people.

Soot, when it falls on snowy areas such as the Arctic and high mountains, causes the earth to absorb more sunlight, instead of reflecting it as snow does.

It's even more attractive because black carbon washes quickly out of the atmosphere, and so reducing soot emissions would lead to a fast fall in the concentration of black carbon in the atmosphere.

This would help explain the differential vs the tropics (soot has less effect on warming when it falls on a rain forest than on snow) as well as the differential between Artic and Antarctic.

However, the health impacts from candle - produced soot are not known.One type of candle that has been linked to bad health outcomes is candles with lead core wicks, which are used to make the wicks stand up and to prevent them from falling in the candle wax.

From the news that soot from cremated human bodies has been falling on homes in Ottawa, Canada to scientists solving wind power's bat - killing problem, a lot happened this week in green.

And at the recent Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Bill Lau of NASA drew attention to another way in which soot can affect glacier mass balance.

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