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Shedding light on snow’s important role in Earth’s climate system

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain EU researchers are venturing into extreme arctic conditions to uncover the important role of snow in the Earth’s climate system. The average temperature is -30 degrees Celsius, and there is darkness for up to 24 hours a day. These were the working conditions of a team of scientists who spent nine months studying Arctic snow. Snow…