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SUBMITTER: Yi K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6650455 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20190723 1
Black carbon (BC) aerosols constitute unique and important anthropogenic climate forcers that potentially accelerate the retreat of glaciers over the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau (HTP). Here we show that a large amount of BC emissions produced in India and China-a region of BC emissions to which the HTP is more vulnerable compared with other regions-are related to the consumption of goods and services in the USA and Europe through international trade. These processes lead to a virtual transpor ...[more]