Smog Cloud Menaces Asia

Asian Brown Cloud is melting Himalayan glaciers

By Sam Gale Rosen, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 3, 2007 1:34 PM CDT

(Newser) – An enormous cloud of smog over southern Asia threatens 2 billion people with flooding and drought, a new study shows. The "Asian Brown Cloud" is melting Himalayan glaciers, the Times of London reports, and the resulting floods will menace heavily populated downstream areas. And... Read full story »

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