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Tarballs in Himalayas
November 9 , 2020
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- A study has found Tarballs found in the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau.
- Tarballs are small light-absorbing, carbonaceous particles formed due to burning of biomass or fossil fuels that deposit on snow and ice.
- They hasten glacial melt.
- They are formed from brown carbon, emitted during the burning of fossil fuels.
- Tarballs were emitted from biomass burning in the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
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