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Haze over Beijing

Thick haze collected over the Beijing region in late March 2007. Earlier that month, the BBC News reported that an international team of scientists had documented how increasing pollution in China led to decreasing rainfall over the region.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Haze over Beijing.

NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images of this region.

Published March 23, 2007
Data acquired March 22, 2007

Source:: Aqua > MODIS