We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the Earth as its other creatures do. If one day our planet gets bored of us it would spit us out in a flash.
Mountain glaciers have been in retreat for several decades, but what scientists are now learning is the considerable factor air pollution plays in their decline. According to the research by the National Institute of Research on Glaciers and Mountain Ecosystems in Peru, black carbon encourages the melting of snow or ice in the glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca, in Peru, as it intercepts and absorbs sunlight.
The quality of the air we breathe depends on the lifestyle choices we make every day. Learn more about how air pollution affects you, and what is being done to clean the air. What are you doing to reduce your emissions footprint and beat air pollution?
