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The result was an environment in which official Washington seemed to believe that no home loan could be a bad home loan. "What we did and what we started was not just to push banks to make marginal loans, but to give them an excuse and to give them regulatory...
Scientists have been gathering different kinds of information about the mass for years. A 2008 study by the United Nations Environment Program, for instance, warned that 340,000 people in China and India alone die annually from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases that can be traced to human-induced emissions of...
But that report, like others before it, was inconclusive about what causes the clouds in the first place. "The new research is incredibly important because it refines our understanding of the clouds' components," says Achim Setiner, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program. "In each part of the world there...
See TIME's special report on the environment.
See TIME's special report on the environment.