Air pollution frequently reaches dangerous levels in Beijing and often exceeds the World Health Organization’s recommended levels in Delhi. But this isn’t only bad for people who live in that region, it’s bad for people all over the world. A team of scientists from Texas A&M University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the University of California at San Diego and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory discovered that aerosols created by humans in Asia impact storm formation in the United States and beyond. They compared air pollution rates from 1850 to 2000 and found that manmade particles from Asia impact the Pacific storm track that influences weather over much of the world.
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