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Article: Brown cloud choking earth; FRESH EVIDENCE SHOWS ASIAN SMOG IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 'NATURAL' DISASTERS.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2002
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Byline: DAVID EDWARDS
MILLIONS of human lives are at risk from a gigantic haze of toxic pollutants over Asia.
A UN report released at the weekend says the 10 million-square-mile Asian Brown Cloud poses the biggest threat to the global climate since El Nino, the weather phenomenon which led to thousands of deaths and displaced millions in 1998.
The cloud has already been blamed for a catalogue of severe weather, including China's worst drought in 50 years, floods in Bangladesh and the food crisis which is putting 14million lives at risk in southern ...