New Desert Research Institute research results have hit the world stage and given the Institutes scientists more evidence on the impact of climate change specifically, into the influence of human-produced black carbon, or soot, on the Arctics changing climate.

The research, published in a recent online edition of Science magazine, was led by DRI's ice core scientists, Joe McConnell and Ross Edwards, who used a new method for measuring soot in snow and ice to evaluate historical changes in soot concentrations. At its maximum, from 1906 to 1910, estimated soot in Arctic snow was eight times that of the pre-industrial era.

Read more: http://newsletter.dri.edu/2007/Fall/index.html#climate

Source: Desert Research Institute (www.dri.edu)