. . . . . "US researchers find that black carbon, a component of atmospheric soot that is emitted from sources such as cook stoves, diesel engines and coal-fired electric power plants, may be accelerating snow melt in places like the Himalayan glaciers even faster than greenhouse gases.http://www.scidev.net/en/news/sooty-himalayan-snow-warms-climate-alters-monsoons-.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_ca" .