Beware the brown peril – the abc of ABCs
18 Nov 2008
A three kilometre-thick "brown cloud" of man-made pollution, which stretches from the Arabian Peninsula to China to the western Pacific Ocean, is making Asian cities darker, speeding up the melting of Himalayan glaciers and affecting human health, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme report.
Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABCs) come from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass, and result in the formation of particles such as black carbon and soot which absorb sunlight and heat the air, experts write in the study released in Beijing.
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