I read in one of the local papers when I was in the Delhi airport about air pollution in the Himalayas which is melting the glaciers there. You might remember that Al Gore mentioned the brown clouds over the Indian Ocean in his movie. Below are some links to pictures of the haze similar to the one I saw in the paper. You'll see the haze totally covers Nepal, which is right below the Himalayan mountain range in the photos. Here’s a National Geographic site that talks about the problem: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070801-brown-clouds.html And this one has a picture from last year of the haze over Pakistan: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=14046 Here’s another article with a picture of the haze over India and Nepal also from last year: http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1379