rand0M aXiS Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 INDIA: COOKING FUELS POLLUTION Most of the sooty pollution that creates a chronic brown plume over India and the Indian Ocean originates from cooking fires in which the fuels are dung or wood, according to an analysis published in the journal Science. This kind of pollution contributes to hundreds of thousands of premature deaths, mainly of women and children, and also alters climate, cooling the surface and warming the atmosphere in ways that can alter patterns of drought and rainfall, experts said. The authors of the study, from the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of California, Los Angeles, said many benefits could result from reducing such emissions by spreading cleaner cooking methods. ---Andrew C. Revkin (NYT) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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