Ozone pollution in India kills enough crops to feed 94 million in poverty

Ozone pollution in India kills enough crops to feed 94 million in poverty
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 05, 2014 - In one year, India's ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of the country's major crops, causing losses of more than a billion dollars and destroying enough food to feed tens of millions of people living below the poverty line. These are findings of a new study that looked at the agricultural effects in 2005 of high concentrations of ground-level ozone, a plant-damaging pollutant formed ... more

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