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Scientist Says Pollution From China Is Killing a Japanese Islands Trees
2013-04-25 00:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A mysterious pestilence has befallen this islands primeval forests, leaving behind the bleached, skeletal remains of dead trees that now dot the dark green mountainsides. Osamu Nagafuchi, an environmental engineer with a passion for the island and its rugged terrain, believes he knows the culprit: airborne pollutants from smog-belching China, hundreds of miles upwind. For years, Mr. Nagafuchis theory was ignored by fellow scientists and even mocked by bureaucrats in the national government who...
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