[PCA] NEWS: Increasing dust speeds melting of mountain snow

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Mon Jun 29 19:47:22 CDT 2009


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_sc/us_sci_dust_in_the_wind

Increasing dust speeds melting of mountain snow
AP
By Randolph E. Schmid, Ap Science Writer -- Mon Jun 29, 5:00 pm ET

WASHINGTON -- Dust in the wind is rewriting the cycle of life in the 
mountains. Throughout memory the warmth of spring has begun the mountain 
snowmelt, bringing life-giving water to greening plants so they can 
blossom and renew their species.

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