Black carbon concentrations near the Gangotri glacier rose 400 times in summer due to forest fires and stubble burning from agricultural waste, and triggered glacial melt.

Black carbon concentrations near the Gangotri glacier increased 400 times in summer due to forest fires and stubble burning from agricultural waste, and activated glacial melt.|Picture Credit: AFP

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Being a beautiful zone far from sources of contamination, the measurements are vital to establishing a standard for pollution loads

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The group of researchers from WIHG, led by P.S. Negi, measured variations of black carbon concentration at Chirbasa, near the Gangotri glacier in the Indian Himalaya, and situated at an altitude of 3,600 metres, throughout the year2016 “The monthly mean concentration of EBC (comparable black carbon) w