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New Scientist: India has been drying out for half a century, and air pollution thousands of kilometres away is partly to blame.
The monsoon has been weakening since the 1950s. Indian air pollution has been blamed, but now it seems that emissions further afield are also a factor.
"The summer monsoon provides up to 80 per cent of total annual rainfall in south Asia, and supports 20 per cent of the world's population," says Yi Ming of Princeton University in New Jersey. With his colleagues, Ming used climate......
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Air pollution is stunting India’s monsoon
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 30th, 2011
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