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Kumik is a high altitude village located in India's northern Ladakh region. High above the village, this melting glacier on Sultan Largo mountain provides the people who live here with their only source of water. (Image courtesy of Jonathan Mingle)
Article July 1, 2015

Soot, Solidarity and Survival: A Conversation with Jonathan Mingle

Author Jonathan Mingle discusses his new book, Fire & Ice, the powerful particle, black carbon, and climate change around the world.
Press Release: Victory March 29, 2012

Environmental Groups Welcome EPA Report on Black Carbon and Encourage Action

Following extensive advocacy by Earthjustice and allied groups, the EPA released a comprehensive, congressionally mandated report on the science of black carbon and climate change. The report points the way…
Firefighters battle the Eaton Fire in strong winds as many homes burn on January 7, 2025 in Pasadena, California. (David McNew / Getty Images)
Article June 30, 2025

Climate Change Is Making Wildfires Burn Longer and Wider

Here's what Earthjustice is doing about it.
Black carbon warms twice over Arctic snow and ice—first in the atmosphere, absorbing incoming sunlight, and then again when it settles on ice and snow, accelerating melting. (Michael Zysman / Shutterstock)
Article April 23, 2015

Strong U.S. Leadership Can Deliver on Black Carbon Reductions in the Arctic

When the U.S. assumes the chair of the Arctic Council this Friday, it will have an extraordinary opportunity to lead on reducing emissions of black carbon and methane.
Press Release February 10, 2009

Black Carbon Threatens World Heritage Sites

International groups ask UNESCO to take action at June meeting in Seville, Spain
Press Release April 23, 2013

Human Rights Petition to Reduce Black Carbon Emissions Urges Canada to Take Immediate Action

Arctic Athabaskan Council says rights violated by failure to slow rapid Arctic warming
Article September 24, 2013

Big Week for Black Carbon

document February 6, 2013

AC Chair Summary on Black Carbon

document February 4, 2013

Letter to Environment Ministers on Black Carbon

Press Release April 23, 2009

Strange Climate Bedfellows: Black Carbon Bill Unites Boxer, Kerry, Inhofe

At stopsoot.org, Earthjustice video urges U.S. leadership at Arctic summit
document June 13, 2011

UNEP Black Carbon Report Press Release

document June 13, 2011

UNEP: Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon

document May 6, 2011

The Arctic Council And Black Carbon

Clouds over the Arctic Ocean. The Arctic is warming at twice the global average. (Patrick Kelley / U.S. Geological Survey)
Press Release May 11, 2017

Arctic Council Advances Black Carbon Emission Reductions, Sidelines Paris Agreement

Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen: “Council’s declaration ignores the urgency of implementing the Paris Agreement”
The Athabaskans rely on an intact Arctic ecosystem for their survival. (Photo courtesy of the Athabaskan Arctic Council)
case April 23, 2013

Protecting Human Rights by Reducing Black Carbon Emissions to Slow Arctic Warming

Kayford Mountain in West Virginia has been devastated by mountaintop removal mining. For our economy and communities we must live by the carbon budget. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Article October 10, 2013

What It Means To Live by a Carbon Budget

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, the most precise yet thanks to advances in scientific monitoring, confirms that climate change impacts are outpacing previous projections for ocean warming, the…
Press Release April 29, 2009

U.S. , Other Arctic Nations Agree to Study Soot as Global Warming Agent

Earthjustice says need for action is urgent
document December 3, 2008

Black Carbon Fact Sheet

An Earthjustice fact sheet on reducing black carbon emissions.