The Great Brown Cloud Over South Asia!!

So today I received this NASA press release. Apparently there's a giant brown cloud over Southern Asia and the Indian Ocean. That doesn't seem like such a good sign.

A recent image:


An image from April, 2001:


The press release gives the following URL for more information, which is also where I found the above two images:

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/brown_cloud.html

I've made the press release available here:

http://www.tedpavlic.com/lqb/NASA_brown_cloud.html