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Increasing Dust Accelerates Mountain Snowmelt

June 30, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Dust in the wind is rewriting the cycle of life in the mountains. Throughout memory the warmth of spring has begun the mountain snowmelt, bringing life-giving water to greening plants so they can blossom and renew their species. But now, scientists say, the timing is being thrown off by desert dust stirred as global warming dries larger areas and human activity increases in those regions

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Increasing Dust Accelerates Mountain Snowmelt