Research suggests reducing air pollution could increase rice harvests in India
12/05/2006
IR/PS Professor Jeffrey Vincent, UCSD scientist V. "Ram" Ramanathan and Maximilian Auffhammer, of UC Berkeley have found that air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels has contributed to a worrisome slowdown in rice harvest growth in India in the past two decades. The findings were based on the examination of historical data on India's rice harvests and by gauging the combined effects of atmospheric brown clouds and greenhouse gases on growing conditions.
The new findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy (PINAS) on December 4th.
Click here to read about the findings in Reuters.
Click here to read the Scripps Institute of Oceanography press release.
