Pollution amplifies greenhouse gas warming trends to jeopardize Asian water supplies

Scientists have concluded that the global warming trend caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases is a major contributor to the melting of Himalayan and other tropical glaciers. Now a new analysis of pollution-filled "brown clouds" over south Asia by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC-San Diego offers hope that the region may be able to arrest some of the alarming retreat of such glaciers by reducing its air pollution.

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