UCI sleuths search the seas for soot

UCI sleuths search the seas for soot Irvine CA (SPX) May 13, 2016 - Earth system scientists from the University of California, Irvine have taken water samples from the north Pacific, north and south Atlantic, and Arctic oceans in search of repositories of black carbon, soot from burning biomass and diesel engines, among other sources. They've found considerably less of the material than expected, and they've discovered that it exists in at least two variet ... more

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