Posted AT 4:28 AM EST on 14/11/08
China's journey to the dark ages
BEIJING — In the skies over China and South Asia, the sun itself is disappearing. The biggest cities are becoming darker as they fall beneath a vast brown cloud of soot, and even North America is vulnerable to the drifting toxic cloud.
That's the conclusion of a new United Nations study: that warns that the smog clouds have become so enormous they could kill 340,000 people annually in China and India.
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