Antarctic scientists begin hunt for sky’s ‘detergent’

NEWS 20 November 2018 Antarctic scientists begin hunt for sky’s ‘detergent’ Ice records pre-industrial levels of chemical that scrubs the atmosphere of greenhouses gases. By Nicky Phillips

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Twitter Facebook Email Access through your institution Buy or subscribe To understand how the sky cleanses itself, a team of Australian and US researchers is heading to Antarctica to track

down the atmosphere’s main detergent. By drilling deep into polar ice, the scientists hope to determine how the sky’s capacity to scrub away some ozone-depleting chemicals and potent

greenhouse gases has changed since the Industrial Revolution — information that could help to improve global-warming projections.

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Nature 563, 455-456 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07422-w

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