References & Sources

Sooty Air Cuts China’s Crop Yields Full Text

Reducing haze-causing pollution should help Chinese farmers increase grain production—perhaps eliminating China’s demand for grain imports.

References:

Chameides, W.L., et al. 1999. Case study of the effects of atmospheric aerosols and regional haze on agriculture: An opportunity to enhance crop yields in China through emission controls? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96(Nov. 23):13626.

Further Readings:

Brown, L.R. 1995. Who Will Feed China. New York: W.W. Norton.

Chen, X., Z. Wang, and . J. Guo. 1996. China’s grain supply and demand in the 21st century. Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 10:136.

Jikun, H., and S. Rozelle. 1995. Environmental stress and grain yields in China. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 77(November):853.

Monastersky, R. 1999. China’s air pollution chokes crop growth. Science News 155(March 27):197.

______. 1993. Seeing the parkland through the haze. Science News 143(Feb. 6):95.

______. 1992. Trying to see the forest through the haze. Science News 141(April 11):233.

Raloff, J. 1996. Feeding China’s growing appetite. Science News Online (Sept. 7).

______. 1991. Cholesterol: Up in smoke. Science News 140(July 27):60.

______. 1991. Dust to dust: A particularly lethal legacy. Science News 139(April 6):212.

______. 1991. Air pollution: A respiratory hue and cry. Science News 139(March 30):203.

______. 1990. Acid rain’s most visible symptom. Science News 137(March 3):143.

______. 1989. Smallest aerosol pollutants linked to disease. Science News 135(May 6):277.

Smil, V. 1996. Environmental Problems in China: Estimates of Economic costs. Honolulu: East-West Center.

Sources:

Lester Brown
Worldwatch Institute
1776 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036-1904

William L. Chameides
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Atlanta, GA 30332

Cynthia E. Rosenzweig
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
2880 Broadway
New York, NY 10025

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 23, December 4, 1999, p. 356. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.