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Haze behind melting glaciers in Himalayas [1]

One of the most serious problems resulting from the brown haze that envelopes vast areas of Asia, the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, is the retreat of the glaciers in the Himalayas and Hindu Kush and in Tibet, according to lead researcher Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a professor of climate and ocean sciences at the University of California in San Diego.

Publication Date: 
15/11/2008
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Himalaya [3], Glaciers [4], Atmospheric Brown Clouds [5], Climate Impacts [6], Glacial Melt [7]
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