Aerosol particles dry out South Asian monsoons: study

Reuters: Summer monsoons that provide up to 80 percent of the water South Asia needs have gotten drier in the past half century, possibly due to aerosol particles spewed by burning fossil fuels, climate scientists said on Thursday. Monsoon rains are driven by looping air circulation patterns over India, and the aerosols appear to have interfered with these patterns, researchers reported in the journal Science. Between 1950 and 1999, the drying was most pronounced in central-northern India, with a 10......

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