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What Dust May Have To Do With Earth’s Rapidly Warming Poles

As earth’s climate warms, scientists have tried to understand why the poles are heating up two to three times faster than the rest of the planet. Airborne dust, it turns out, may play a key role.

by Kim Martineau |January 9, 2013
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