Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric heights

Friday, March 26, 2010 - 08:28 in Earth & Climate

The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the global nature of air pollution and its effects far above Earth's surface...

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