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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

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When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Whenever there are combustion processes, of which there are many in our industrial society (e.g.,

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Nuclear War: The War Our Planet Won’t Survive

Vermont Law

START), signed by the United States and Russia in 2011, limits these two countries to only 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads each deployed on 700 long-rage delivery systems. million metric tons of black carbon aerosol particles into the atmosphere to shade the earth for years. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

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