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Black carbon a powerful climate pollutant: international study [1]

Black carbon, the soot produced by burning fossil fuels and biomass, is a more potent atmospheric pollutant than previously thought, according to a four-year international study released on Tuesday

Publication Date: 
16/01/2013
Deborah Zabarenko [2]
Planet Ark (Australia) [3]
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Fossil Fuels [4], Biomass [5], Climate Change [6], Diesel [7], Firewood [8], Carbon Dioxide [9], Global Warming [10], Waste Disposal [11], Vehicular Pollution [12], UNEP [13], IPCC [14], Methane [15], Arctic [16], Rainfall Pattern [17], United States Of America (US) [18], Canada [19], Europe [20], Asia [21], Air Pollution [22]
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