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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 18 > Global dimming?

Global dimming?

Seems as if pollution is darkening the skies as well as dirtying them

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
March 18, 2009

WASHINGTON — The sky is dimming, for most of the world.

Increases in airborne pollution have dimmed the skies by blocking sunlight over the past 30 years, researchers are reporting in the most recent edition of the journal Science.

While decreases in atmospheric visibility —....

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