Pollution Darkens Surface Causing Increased Ice Melt

In recent decades, the many fires burning in very distant forested parts of the planet, together with the ever-increasing amounts of particulate matter being discharged from power plants and wood-burning stoves etc have been a large source of pollution that has found its way all over the planet. As the particles settle on the snow, they darken its surface; an effect that is now so noticeable that these once glistening-white ice-fields look, and indeed are, dirty.  

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