POLLUTION
8/12/2002
UN warns that a 3-kilometer-deep smog layer stretching across South Asia is modifying weather patterns, damaging agriculture, and endangering health.
Source
UNEP, "Regional and Global Impacts of Vast Pollution Cloud Detailed In New Scientific Study," press release (Nairobi: 12 August 2002).
Links
The Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment
Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
Worldwatch Links
Worldwatch Research Library: Pollution
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