South Asian Monsoons Remove Smog, Spread Pollution

There’s good news and bad news about the Indian summer monsoon. According to a new study, South Asian monsoons both help clean the atmosphere and spread pollution as far away as Tibet. As South Asia burns fossil fuels, researchers from Germany say the clockwise-spinning storm pulls the emissions high into the troposphere. There, lightning-fueled chemical reactions transform the pollutants into more stable forms, which fall to earth as harmless rain. However, not all the emissions reach...

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