Raining misery
tiny pollutant particles, known as sulphate aerosols, emitted by power stations and industries from the us and Europe have played an important role in causing catastrophic droughts in the Sahel region of Africa. These were the findings of a research conducted by Australia-based Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (csiro), in collaboration with Canada's Dalhousie University. The research is pioneering, as it is the first to establish a link between sulphur emissions and disrupted regional weather patterns of the poor nations.
In the past 30-40 years, Sahel