
China’s Notorious Air Pollution May Be Worsening Its Floods
Soot and other air pollution may be the cause behind China’s devastating 2013 flood, the country’s worst flood in 50 years, new research suggests. In July of that year, 94 cm of rain pounded a mountainous region of China’s Sichuan province over a five-day period, resulting in floods and landslides that displaced 300,000 and killed […]