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Article: Asia's growing cloud. (Updates).
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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From Afghanistan to Sri Lanka, Asia is covered in a two-mile-deep cloud of pollution that is responsible for the breathing-related deaths of hundreds of thousands of people every year. The existence of the cloud was reported in E's special global warming issue (see "Welcome to the Greenhouse Century," September/October 2000) but new scientific evidence reveals it to be larger and thicker than previously believed.
The cloud reduces the amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the Indian Ocean by up to ...