Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Is wildfire soot accelerating climate change? A WWU research team heads to Greenland to find answers. The three-person team spent 15 hours on the Greenland Ice Sheet studying the impact of algae and black carbon deposition on snow albedo, a term used to describe how much light and heat are reflected by the snow’s surface. Read the full story here: https://window.wwu.edu/science-under-midnight-sun

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