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 Stories About: air pollution AND Asia AND energy
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Death, Be Not Cloud
An excerpt from Feeling the Heat sizes up the ominous Asian Cloud |
Jim Motavalli |
28 Sep 2004 |
Arts and Minds |
| This piece is excerpted from Feeling the Heat: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Climate Change. Other contributors to the book include writers Ross Gelbspan, David Helvarg, and Mark Hertsgaard and photographer Gary Braasch. Feeling the Heat: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Climate Change Edited by Jim Motavalli, Routledge, 176 pages, 2004 The Indian city of Mumbai, formerly Bomba ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Asia, energy (all these topics) |
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How Now, Brown Cloud
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12 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| How Now, Brown Cloud A dense blanket of pollution that is hovering over South Asia could cause millions of deaths in the region and pose a threat to the world at large, a group of 200 scientists announced today. Known as the "Asian Brown Cloud," the smog is an estimated two miles thick and covers the entire Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka to Afghanistan. The ... |
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| Topics: Afghanistan, air pollution, Asia, energy, health, India, Sri Lanka, wilderness (all these topics) |
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