Reducing black carbon emissions is key to preserving glaciers and their life-supporting benefits, writes Pema Gyamtsho, head of ICIMOD.

While CO2 gets the spotlight, black carbon's potent, short-lived warming effect is pushing Asia's glaciers past the tipping point A dark, barely visible powder is hastening the melt of glaciers from ...

Black carbon from aerosols eventually condenses ... is likely to be having an increased warming effect on the Himalayan glaciers owing to a decrease in the ice albedo (its ability to reflect ...

A new study emphasises the urgent need to cut black carbon emissions to mitigate climate change and protect vulnerable ...

Comprehensive abatement strategies will be needed to limit global warming. A drastic reduction of black-carbon emissions could provide near-immediate relief with important co-benefits. Light ...

Fiber optic cable deployed on a Swiss glacier has detected the seismic signals of crevasses opening in the ice, confirming ...

One expert tells Carbon Brief that glacier loss is already causing ... The average of all nine regions is shown by the dotted black line. Cumulative mass changes of glaciers in different world regions ...

Black carbon accelerates climate change and is harmful to humans, which is why its emissions are expected to be restricted. SootSense can help industries and cities in the fight against black carbon.

A dark, barely visible powder is hastening the melt of glaciers from the Himalayas to the Arctic. Black carbon, a “super pollutant” whose warming power far exceeds that of carbon dioxide ...