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Overlooked air pollution may be fueling more powerful storms

Ultrafine aerosols can help form clouds under certain conditions

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RAINSTORM RECIPE  Ultrafine aerosols — once thought to be too small to affect cloud formation — may play a role in making storms in the Amazon rainforest more powerful, new research finds.

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By Carolyn Gramling

- More than 2 years ago

Though they be but little, they are fierce.