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Black carbon

A large snowy landscape photograph depicts a single dirt road running through the lower half with a large yellow dump truck driving.

On Baffin Island in the fragile Canadian Arctic, an iron ore mine spews black carbon

Environment

The Mary River iron mine facility in the frozen landscape of Canada’s Baffin Island wants to quadruple its output by 2025, producing 65.3 metric tons of the super-pollutant.

Eight nations share the territory of the Arctic, which is experiencing the fastest changes of any part of the earth as global temperatures rise. The United States will emphasize addressing the causes and impacts of climate change in the region when it tak

As new leader of the Arctic Council, the US will focus on the region’s Big Thaw

Environment
Researcher Tami Bond won a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship for her work investigating the sources of black carbon emissions.

A newly-minted ‘genius’ hopes to stop pollution from soot and smoke

Environment

They’re unhealthy and contribute to climate change, but traditional cookstoves prove hard to displace

Environment

Climate Control and Clean Air

The World

Carbon Black

An Oklahoma Indian community is so contaminated with soot and other particulates from a nearby industrial plant that residents want to take regulating matters into their own hands.

The World

Carbon Black

Ever wonder what makes tires black? It’s fine pieces of black carbon. But producer Vicki Monks reports that Oklahomans who live near a plant that manufactures the product say they’ve been left unprotected and it may be time to give an Indian reservation control over environmental regulation.