China's air pollution chokes crop growth

Rural ozone pollution in China is high enough to threaten agriculture there.

References:

Chameides, W.L., et al. 1999. Is ozone pollution affecting crop yields in China? Geophysical Research Letters 26(April 1):876.

Further Readings:

Monastersky, R. 1997. Pollution surge from new Chinese cars. Science News 152(Dec. 20&27):396.

Sources:

William L. Chameides
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Atlanta, GA 30332-0340

Jennifer A. Logan
Harvard University
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
Cambridge, MA 02138

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 13, March 27, 1999, p. 197. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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