
What is black carbon? The latest way humans are causing changes in Antarctica
CNN
Increasing human presence in Antarctica is causing more snow melt — bad news for a frozen world already battling the effects of human-caused global warming.
Now even Antarctica — the only continent with no permanent human inhabitants — is being altered by the grit that follows us wherever we go.
A study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications found that the increasing human presence in Antarctica is causing more snow melt — bad news for a frozen world already battling the effects of human-caused global warming.

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