Why cutting soot emissions is 'fastest solution' to slowing Arctic ice melt

Reducing wood-burning, gas-flaring and global diesel emissions would be 'quick win' in combating irreversible climate change, scientists say

World leaders should redouble efforts to cut soot emissions because it is the cheapest and fastest way to combat climate change, climate scientists and advocates have told the Guardian.

Deposits of soot - unburned carbon particles - have stained parts of the Arctic black, changing the ice from a reflector of sunlight to an absorber of heat, and accelerating the melting of ice and snow, which itself is starting to alter global weather patterns.