The Smog Free Bicycle is the latest from Roosegaarde's ongoing Smog Free Project.
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Did the smog smother the murders or did the murders obscure the smog?
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Related: The Smog Free Tower Is Heading to China Meet the Dutch Designer on a Mission to Kill Smog The "World's First" Smog-Eating Tower Breaks Ground in Rotterdam
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"Titan smog is like LA smog on steroids," Scott Edgington, NASA's deputy project scientist for Cassini, said in a statement.
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Smog alerts came after China's environmental watchdog warned of an expected smog in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from Oct.
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Most US cities — from New York to Los Angeles, which was renamed the smog capital of the world — were engulfed in smog.
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Beijing was also issued smog-related red alerts in 2015, and India has also dealt with serious smog as recently as November.
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These chemicals, along with nitrogen oxides, are responsible for ground-level smog on hot, sunny days, smog which research shows may be linked to asthma.
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The Environmental Protection Department said the level of smog pollution was lower this year than last in Lahore because of anti-smog measures already underway.
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TRUMP EPA TO KEEP OBAMA SMOG RULE: The Trump administration has decided to keep the Obama administration's controversial 2015 smog regulation and defend it in court.
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"It's not clear that bacteria in smog are a health threat," Dr. Lipkin wrote, noting that smog may be the more likely cause of health problems.
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In fact, nearly 40 percent of Americans live in areas with unhealthy levels of smog pollution and a new study from the American Lung Association finds that smog is increasing in the U.S. Smog, fueled by exhaust from cars, can hurt people's eyes and burn their throat.
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The center also renewed an orange alert for smog in the same period in northern, eastern and central China, with smog continuing to blanket the regions since Friday.
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EPA ISSUES NEW SMOG RULE: The EPA on Wednesday updated an agency rule designed to reduce smog-forming pollution that crosses state lines in the eastern United States.
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The project will begin in Beijing in fall 2016 before heading to four other major cities and will showcase Roosegarde's Smog Free Tower, piloted in a Rotterdam park last year, and Smog Free Jewelry, along with holding talks and activities so people can discuss and learn about smog-free solutions.
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READ MORE: Chinese artist uses 'vacuum' to turn smog into bricks Starting Point Back in January 2013, severe smog engulfed Beijing and the heavy haze lingered for two weeks.
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" But, she conceded, "Sylvia Plath, 210 years later, is still not really in the canon because she dared to complain about the 'smog of cooking, the smog of hell.
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"Trucks remain a major source of pollution that creates smog, and smog is linked with coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, and can cause asthma and premature death," he said.
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However, most northern cities failed to meet winter smog targets over the six-months to end-March, which has added to fears that efforts to tackle smog have lost momentum.
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Each October, New Delhi becomes blanketed in a thick smog which blots out the sky until around March, when patches of blue begin to reappear overhead as the smog retreats.
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At one point in November, when pollution levels were 20 times the World Health Organization's safe level, the city's plan to use smog-dispersing helicopters was grounded — by the smog itself.
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It feels more like political vendetta than fully formed policy, since last week's action made it harder for California to deal with smog and this week's could penalize California for its smog.
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And where's Chai Jing, the former TV journalist who created a sensation in smog-shrouded China with "Under the Dome – Investigating China's Smog" ("柴静雾霾调查：穹顶之下")?
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As an incentive to contribute, Roosegaarde and his team of environmental experts and designers made a line of Smog Free Jewelry, which encased the captured smog particles in clean-cut rings and cufflinks.
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Daan Roosegaarde, an inventor from the Netherlands and the designer behind China's smog-sucking tower, wants to get in on the action with a bike that sucks up smog and releases clean air.
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In 2016, another Smog Free Tower was installed in Beijing.
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Meanwhile, smog also harms our lungs and causes breathing problems.
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The smog forced flight cancellations, factory shutdowns and school closures.
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Beijing's war on winter smog has also disrupted manufacturing activity.
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But even Delhi's smog could not obscure some hard truths.
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Fumes from the sea of cars add to the smog.
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Cutting smog would have other benefits as well, he said.
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The #smog is slowly killing people all across North India.
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Tell me about your relationship to smog, mist, and vapor.
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No, not the fine for not passing the smog test.
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"That hung over us like a miasmic smog," Burns said.
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The emissions lead to smog and collect in the atmosphere.
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It's not what happened in the Great Smog of 1952.
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Smog looms over the city of Tianjin, in northeastern China.
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An electronic screen's brightness shines through this smog in Shenyang.
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Still, the choking smog left her worried about their health.
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But this year's smog has been much worse than usual.
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Los Angeles has long been known for its smog issues.
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Here, that same year, smog was trapped against the mountains.
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Pakistan's minister for climate change blames India for toxic smog.
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These measures have not yet been engulfed with partisan smog.
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Smog, police corruption, and of course the Ku Klux Klan.
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Paris has also historically and recently suffered from dangerous smog.
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For years, Beijing residents spoke of fog rather than smog.
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But Churchill refuses to see the smog as an issue.
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Anhui, a key non-ferrous smelting province, took the initiative to curb output even though it has been excluded from Beijing's winter smog "battleplan" applying to 543 cities in the smog-prone northern region.
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Previous campaigns to cut smog, including a six-month crackdown on 28 smog-prone northern cities beginning last October, forced factories to shut or restrict production whether they met state emissions standards or not.
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Authorities in some cities particularly affected by smog have gone further.
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Image: APIs that an especially sickly hue in the smog clouds?
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Smog Cutter290020 N. Virgil Ave, East Hollywood, 210939 Sure, it's cramped.
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Several residents have been posting photographs of the smog on Twitter.
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Vehicles drive through heavy smog in New Delhi on Nov. 8.
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You can almost feel the California sun filtering through the smog.
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I've never seen an aurora in Norilsk — the sky is smog.
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Smog, though still too frequent, was at least a bit lighter.
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Smog sometimes renders even the hills invisible, let alone the wall.
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Smog Cutter864 N. Virgil Ave, East Hollywood, 90029 Sure, it's cramped.
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Cars at a smog-filled intersection in Beijing in December 2015.
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I loved Dongs Of Sevotion by Smog and things like that.
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A smog red alert in Beijing was canceled on Dec. 22.
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Risks for France, maneuvering in North Korea and smog over Poland.
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Meanwhile, Hebei government this week issued emergency smog alert until Nov.
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Citizens are increasingly clamoring for cleaner air in smog-choked cities.
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SINCE the 1940s, southern California has had a reputation for smog.
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Plus, still air on hot days causes smog to stick around.
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And indeed we've nearly solved smog no thanks to Henry David.
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Number one, we're talking about 300 years of smog like this.
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Here are 32 photos showing life in China, through the smog.
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India's capital Delhi has been shrouded by smog in recent days.
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And smog mars the vistas of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Today, the smog across Delhi is just a little bit lighter.
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Five days later, the smog was washed away in a rainstorm.
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Monitors were used in each city to measure soot and smog.
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Tianjin and Hebei Province already list smog as a natural disaster.
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New Delhi is not the only Indian city struggling with smog.
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There was no single smog event that led to the act.
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The smog crisis cuts to the heart of India's image abroad.
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The city of stars could be called the city of smog.
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Later, fearing the effects of smog on the city's inhabitants, Gov.
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On bad days, cars would appear from out of the smog.
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The smog-induces shutdowns have hammered Chinese commodity futures this week.
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It's commonly said that Los Angeles smog actually enhances the effect.
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The smog has also impacted neighboring countries, including Malaysia and Singapore.
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"In 5363, we had smog in San Bernardino," Ms. Baldi said.
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Regular episodes of smog have occurred in northern China this year.
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Although the smog from the fire has not yet reached urban areas, the government deployed around 500 military and police personnel and a water-bombing helicopter to help put out the fire and contain the smog.
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While China has tried to squash smog offenders, enforcement remains a challenge.
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There are also concerns about the leak's effect on smog and ozone.
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Smog isn't unusual in Tehran, particularly at this time of the year.
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Smog covers buildings in Beijing, China, at the end of January 2017.
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But it was hard to ignore the choking smog enveloping China's northeast.
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A street cleaner works in heavy smog in Delhi, on Nov. 10.
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A child makes his way through dense smog near Akshardham on Nov.
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Several cities across the world have taken steps to fight smog levels.
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Hovering above the iconic Hollywood sign is Southern California's other icon: smog.
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If you've ever visited Krakow, Poland, you'll be familiar with the smog.
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We realized that smog has been, quite literally, taking our breath away.
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Back then, America's most urgent environmental problems were smog and water pollution.
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Many of us remember the days of smog alerts and acid rain.
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China's air, especially in northern parts, is perennially shrouded in choking smog.
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For Ting Li, life in Beijing means navigating through sticky gray smog.
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He says he wanted them to be a monument to combating smog.
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The coal is treated with chemicals to cut mercury and smog pollution.
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The Indian flag flies on smog-enshrouded Red Fort in Delhi, India.
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But 20 highways remained closed in Shandon province, as heavy smog persisted.
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Besides the lava, there's also the danger of "vog," or volcanic smog.
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Rabka-Zdroj is hardly alone; across swathes of Poland, winter means smog.
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Gazeta Wyborcza, a newspaper, recently gave its readers a free smog mask.
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Really, it was yet another smog, it just lasted a lot longer.
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Two people ride during heavy smog in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province in 2017.
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How about the smog, water pollution and asthma attacks those pollutants create?
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"The 1952 smog was a real knock to the psyche," she said.
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Residents of the city were literally choking on the hazardous, grey smog.
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At the time, lawmakers were thinking about smog and other local pollutants.
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First, there was (what I'm calling) the Smog Derby: LA Galaxy vs.
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Previous "no circulation" rules had exemptions for vehicles that passed smog-checks.
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There are a number of causes behind the city's blanket of smog.
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Apparently the next secretary of state will be somebody who likes smog.
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The revised classification of smog in Beijing could further restrain public discussion.
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Air so thick with smog it was impossible to see the horizon.
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Five years ago in China, they were still denying the smog problem.
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Ground-level ozone is the part of smog that you can't see.
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"There's less smog and more traffic," Mike Scioscia said with a laugh.
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Cars contribute to ozone, which was the main cause of the smog.
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And smog still covered the San Gabriel Mountains at times in 1972.
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Streetlights were needed 913 hours a day to see through the smog.
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Sunsets, he says, aren't enhanced by smog pollution (despite the conventional wisdom).
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Beijing, New Delhi and Tehran experience smog that far exceeds W.H.O. limits.
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They will mean more smog, mercury, arsenic and lead in our bodies.
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The number of heavy smog days declined by one to 46 days.
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While the Great Smog was denser and longer-lasting than previous "fogs," the long-term effects of the Great Smog weren't realized until several weeks — and even years — later as Londoners were already used to bad air quality.
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Actually, that's why last year we used this wordplay many times during the Smogathon – our key visual identification was a guy in a traditional cracovian outfit, wearing a gas mask and facing a smog-breathing dragon – The Smog.
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The results could be used to warn people when smog levels are too high for, say, asthmatic children to venture to the park, or to allow people to schedule their exercise so they're not running during peak smog.
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SCOURGE OF SMOG In China, smog has become a major source of public discontent and Beijing declared a "war on pollution" five years ago, seeking to mitigate the environmental damage done during four decades of breakneck economic growth.
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In November, the Lahore High Court ordered the Punjab provincial government to implement recommendations of the Smog Commission, set up by the court in 2017 to look at the drivers of smog and find ways to reduce them.
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Delhi smog New Delhi has emerged as the focus of the debate within India over air pollution, after it was briefly the most polluted city in the world in 2016 and has consistently struggled to cut smog levels.
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" In the north, Reuters analysis also found that "only six of 39 smog-prone northern Chinese cities have managed to cut concentrations of hazardous airborne particles known as PM2.5 during the latest winter anti-smog campaign beginning last October.
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The smog monster eventually makes its way into the club and ends the party prematurely, at which point the elder Yano and his fellow students decide to take action by organizing a "million man march" against the smog monster.
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For the last one week Delhi has been choking, wrapped around in smog.
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Dense, toxic smog engulfs the Dasna stretch in Ghaziabad, India, on Nov. 7.
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Every year farmers setting fire to rice stubble create a dense seasonal smog.
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TC: Could it be the ancient dragon of legend making all the smog?
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Nitrogen oxide is a pollutant that contributes to smog and poor air quality.
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They fret about their children's lingering coughs—could the smog be the cause?
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Those polled expressed less anxiety about smog and the rising cost of living.
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Traffic moves around a smog-enveloped Connaught Place, the heart of Delhi, India.
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The smog hovering over many major cities is not just an unhealthy inconvenience.
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Many cities have variations on congestion pricing to combat horrific levels of smog.
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Dawn broke early in Dandong, casting light on the smog-filled concrete landscape.
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Many moved in from California, eager to escape the traffic, crime and smog.
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There's also the danger of "vog," or volcanic smog, on the Big Island.
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Systemic problems The polluting pyrotechnics aren't the sole reason behind the toxic smog.
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What's more, the smog-filled air can cause skin rashes, nausea, and headaches.
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Some steel mills have also started increasing output as winter smog restrictions end.
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In 1958, LA's smog brought the city nearly the point of blockading freeways.
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The U.S. ranks poorly on smog pollution, which kills 20163,000 Americans per year.
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Smog is linked to heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, lung disease, and lung cancer.
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Smog isn't the only form of pollution that's affecting the lives of locals.
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Smog is coming from all over the province and Washington and Oregon State.
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We have millions more people in L.A., but a fraction of the smog.
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That the book includes a smog-filled Delhi where people go around in
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Los Angeles has had air pollution problems since before smog was a term.
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Smog has been linked to asthma, heart and lung disease, and premature death.
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Like Beijing, New Delhi and Tehran experience smog that far exceeds W.H.O. limits.
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Smog is a particular problem from late October through mid-January in Pakistan.
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"Stop the waves, stop the smog," said one banner flapping in the wind.
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Heavy smog was predicted again in Beijing for three days, starting on Friday.
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Today, 85033 million Latinos live in country's top 15 cities for smog pollution.
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But the smog they leave behind grows thick with the passage of time.
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Those aren't just towers—they're enormous, verdant air filters for smog-choked cities.
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About 200 people died, a toll similar to a smog crisis in 1953.
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BEIJING — Winters in Beijing have long been choked by thick, dusty, toxic smog.
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At issue is an update to the "Good Neighbor Provision" of the Clean Air Act, a requirement that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) step in when smog emissions from states prevent their downwind neighbors from meeting federal smog health standards.
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Mr. Roosegaarde said the idea for the Smog Free Tower came about during a 2013 trip to Beijing, when he learned the blanket of smog was so bad that the city's children could not play outdoors for part of the year.
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Read more:China's toxic smog is linked to one-third of deaths in the country, study saysChina's smog has gotten so bad, it's almost impossible to see skyscrapers from the airIndonesia has not imposed tough enough penalties for plantation fires: Greenpeace
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Additionally, as Pruitt continues to block the methane standards that help reduce smog, he has also threatened to take away the tools that help states address smog-forming pollution from oil and gas sites in areas with unhealthy air pollution.
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This perennial task sends thick choking smog to Southeast Asia, causing serious health concerns.
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Students wear masks to protect themselves from thick smog in Lahore, Pakistan, last November.
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He sued to stop a rule to reduce smog pollution that crossed state lines.
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Here are three more ways the Chinese smog has made headlines in recent days.
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One path will be the Smog Free Tower as a solution for local parks.
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For more information on the Smog Free Tower in Beijing, visit Studio Roosegaarde's website.
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And third, in summer, heat and the sun's ultraviolet rays help to create smog.
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READ: Beijing man photographs smog for three years Add John D. Sutter on Snapchat.
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Steel production in smog-prone Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region will be limited during winter.
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California is the land of sunshine, if you can see it through the smog.
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Delhi has a history of toxic smog, which typically worsens in the winter months.
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The public will cheer: less carbon spewed into the air should mean less smog.
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We organized a 24-hour hackathon dedicated to creating smog-fighting solutions – Smogathon 2015.
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In the era before emissions control, the 1966 New York Smog killed 168 people.
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Zibo's ceramics companies are not only hit by emergency closures aimed at curbing smog.
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The chief minister contends that most of Delhi's smog comes from agricultural burn-off.
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Meanwhile, the number of days with heavy smog dropped by one to 46 days.
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The smog and ash has led to many absences, Vice Principal Deisha Davis said.
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This is certainly a hopeful London (although I hope the yellow sky isn't smog).
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As the experiment comes to a close, the city is still choking on smog.
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Traffic lights are being optimized to reduce congestion, smog, and fuel consumption by vehicles.
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Winter blends are more likely to evaporate in the summer heat and cause smog.
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Production increased further after winter smog controls expired on March 15 in many areas.
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Nitrogen dioxide is a byproduct of fossil fuel combustion that can contribute to smog.
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Visitors there have similarly taken to smog selfies to capture the dangerous gray haze.
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It's sad that this president can't see through the smog of his own ideas.
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The existing ban, aimed at combating toxic smog in India's capital, was until Thursday.
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Twenty hours after my mother's phone call, I landed in sweltering, smog-choked Delhi.
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Ozone is the main component in smog and is linked to numerous respiratory ailments.
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Smog has become a household word, and officials are starting to take it seriously.
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The book is filled with vividly painted characters that lived through the Great Smog.
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I had to think to myself: Who actually would have been in the smog?
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Traffic pollution and a drop-off in wind speeds also contribute to the smog.
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They've forced the Environmental Protection Agency to control smog pollution that travels across states.
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They have also vowed to implement coordinated emergency response plans during heavy smog outbreaks.
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Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that accelerate climate change do not cause smog.
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Changing weather is likely to disperse the dense smog over the next few days.
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Ozone is a component of smog and is linked to respiratory ailments like asthma.
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"We might be reaching a tipping point with this Delhi smog episode," he said.
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Americans aren't asking for more smog, or more climate pollution, or higher gas bills.
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In 1003, the city would issue its last and only stage-3 smog alert.
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Municipal authorities also said they will be lowering the threshold for declaring smog alerts.
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Ground-level ozone is a key component of smog and is a health hazard.
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In New Delhi, 40 million people are choking on the worst smog in years.
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One resident, Siddharth Singh, told CNN that life in the smog was very strange.
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Smog extended from the port city of Tianjin deep into central China on Thursday.
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I absolutely loved living in Wuhan, outside of the seasonal smog and air pollution.
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He says the smoke and smog-filled air makes him feel trapped and heavy.
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Gritty Beijing, so often blanketed in smog and traffic, felt like a world away.
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Dust from the city's construction boom is also a contributor to the city's smog.
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Meanwhile, the wealthiest city dwellers are able to buy their way out of smog.
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Production increased further after winter smog controls expired on March 54.03 in many areas.
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There were no wildfires, no haze or murk, not even a bad smog smell.
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Nor is heating the only thing driving a reversal in zealous anti-smog policies.
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He has challenged standards for reducing soot and smog pollution that cross state lines.
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Photographs of the smog-shrouded testing on Monday spread across the internet in China.
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The war on smog has just begun and could run for a long time.
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An abundance of resistance genes has been found in bacteria floating in Beijing's smog.
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Maryland has asked the EPA for help curbing the smog coming from upwind states.
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The Obama-era EPA supported a tighter 0.7 part per billion threshold for smog.
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Back then, for example, scientists were still debating the causes of smog in China.
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For instance, Daan Roosegaarde is partnering with the Beijing-based bike-sharing company Ofo to make smog-inhaling bikes available to the public (Studio Roosegaarde's previous projects include a 23-foot-tall structure in Rotterdam that vacuums smog and compresses it into jewelry).
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Smog, car exhaust, and cigarette smoke are just a few of the damage-inducing culprits.
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Cold air helped disperse the smog on Monday morning, but the effect was short lived.
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The move comes as large swaths of the country are blanketed in dangerous, thick smog.
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Trucks are a big source of the noxious emissions linked to smog and climate change.
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Cold air inversions during the winter months can also trap smog lower to the surface.
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Unlike India's smog-filled cities, this Cameroonian city's air quality is compounded by extensive deforestation.
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The smog, classified as hazardous by health organizations, is not showing any signs of receding.
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LIVING under thick layers of smog is known to cause illness and reduce life expectancy.
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Recent research has concluded there is little difference in smog risk between E15 and E10.
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OVER the past month, successive waves of thick smog have blanketed northern and central China.
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During a bout of smog in December, inspectors identified 21 enterprises that had violated regulations.
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Smog is expected to persist in the region until a cold front arrives on Jan.
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Image: Jason Cartwright / GizmodoParis has tried just about everything to combat its terrible smog problem.
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ISLAMABAD – Smog has enveloped much of Pakistan and India, causing highway accidents and respiratory problems.
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Instead, we're stalled in the data smog that hangs over social media and search engines.
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It's famous for its curtains of smog, and for stealing a bunch of water once.
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Beijing residents rang in the New Year from deep inside a cloud of hazardous smog.
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Smoky Mountain air quality has improved marginally in recent years, but the smog issues persist.
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The smog rule was one of the most controversial regulations of the Obama administration's EPA.
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Ozone is a byproduct of pollutants from burning fossil fuels and a component of smog.
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I don't remember ever reading about London's Great Smog of 19523 in history books, though.
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Residents of New Delhi, India, could experience more nausea and headaches because of the smog.
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The tops of these residential compounds in Wujiaqu just barely make it above the smog.
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Ozone is the main component in smog and is linked to respiratory ailments like asthma.
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Ozone is a component in smog, and is linked to respiratory ailments like asthma attacks.
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Ozone is a byproduct of pollutants from burning fossil fuels and a component in smog.
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In Philadelphia, the sun is setting, but because of the smog it's hard to tell.
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The news comes as the country's northern regions braces for more heavy smog this week.
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Volcanic weather conditions Besides the lava, there's also the danger of "vog," or volcanic smog.
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The government's colour-graded warning system was adopted as part of its crackdown on smog.
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The April night was cool but not clear, the smog bringing tears to Bella's eyes.
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Ethanol blended in gasoline does produce more pollutants that lead to smog than gasoline alone.
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The smog and pollution crisis in Beijing and beyond is an ongoing issue for China.
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Maybe someone would plant a tree, or the smog would change into bright white clouds.
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He had never seen a smog so thick that it obscured the Shangri-La Hotel.
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Hanging low and thick, the smog looks like a blend of white smoke and fog.
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The next morning, the city's smog had intensified, turning the surrounding mountains into burly apparitions.
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E.S.G. may well take hold eventually, just as stock markets, Starbucks and smog have done.
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Smog was common, as this shot of Louisville and the Ohio River from 1972 shows.
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Another 22 percent of plants do not have advanced nitrogen oxide controls that limit smog.
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In July 1943, a particularly bad bout of smog caused red eyes and running noses.
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During the 1940s people began to notice the smog, but many thought it was clouds.
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He bought an air purifier this week after developing a cough because of the smog.
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Yet that progress has made the return of the smog this winter even more jarring.
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The closure might help the planet and clear the hazy smog over the Grand Canyon.
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Even so, Mr. Corfidi wasn't prepared to write off the smog-affected sunset as inferior.
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The smog can get so bad that you can't see anything out of your window.
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In other words, that cloud of diesel smog may have a silver lining to it.
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California is burning, Delhi is shrouded in smog, and Venice is sinking into the seas.
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"This morning soccer had been canceled because of the smog," said the principal, Lin Yanling.
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Uncertainty hangs like smog over the city after Britain's decision to leave the European Union.
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Many top urban destinations, particularly in developing nations, have been recognized for unhealthy smog conditions.
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Sales of E15 are currently banned in the summer over worries it could increase smog.
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Smog is a byproduct of air pollutants including greenhouse gases, which contribute to climate change.
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Large parts of the region have been blanketed with thick smog and blood-red skies.
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The ban had been imposed over concerns that E15 contributes to smog in hot weather.
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It isn't all bad news when it comes to Beijing's notoriously heavy — and deadly — smog.
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The smog particles that are collected by the tower are compressed and used to create Smog Free Jewelry, rings and cufflinks—people can purchase the jewelry and it means they are effectively donating 1,000m3 of clean air, although it's more of a gesture than anything.
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The ban had been imposed over concerns that E15 contributes to smog in hot weather, though research has since shown that the 15 percent blend of fuel may not increase smog relative to the more common 10 percent blends that are sold year-round.
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As part of a central government push to fight smog this winter, Hebei plans to reduce small breathable smog particles known as PM11.93 by 15 percent from October 2017 to March 2018, but some major cities will be forced to make even deeper cuts.
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Scheiderman said the EPA's own studies show that pollution from upwind states substantially adds to harmful levels of smog in New York, and cited an American Lung Association report showing that the New York City area ranks as the nation's ninth most smog-polluted city.
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Nitrogen oxides lead to respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, smog and acid rain, and cause premature deaths.
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The Environmental Protection Agency prohibits summer sales of E15 in certain areas because of smog concerns.
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And cold air inversions during the winter can also trap the smog lower to the surface.
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A recent government report concluded smog kills at least 40,000 people throughout the UK a year.
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There's a woman who has clothes that changes color when the smog level is too high.
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An offer of free public transport when smog levels are high has had only limited success.
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The pink granite turned black in the smog and was later dwarfed by Art Deco mansions.
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Heavy smog envelops the Delhi-UP link road near Mayur Vihar Phase-I on Nov. 8.
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On some days, the smog was so bad that it could be seen in satellite photos.
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The country faces huge environmental challenges: smog, polluted rivers and growing water shortages across huge areas.
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São Paulo was shrouded in smog caused by fires raging in the Amazon rainforest 163,700km away.
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Mixed with noxious fumes from a burning sulphur plant, the smog has put hundreds in hospital.
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London's Great Smog, as the disaster is now known, was immediately (and correctly) blamed on coal.
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Finally, there's an ominous shot as the camera pans out in a puff of gray smog.
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But it appears that the primary contributor to the smog is the practice of crop burning.
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The European Environment Agency says smog causes nearly half a million early deaths in Europe annually.
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They mothballed large construction projects in order to reduce smog from cement production and diesel trucks.
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Another potential source of supply, stone coal, is also being restricted by China's war on smog.
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Just near the door was a selection of pollution masks, a nod to Beijing's persistent smog.
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Smog is among the OG environmental concerns and its reduction has been hard and long fought.
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"We called it 'the great smog' last year," said Brendan Morgan, landlord at The Swan pub.
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The smog was worse this year because of a drought and more illegal burning, he added.
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The smog is worse this year because of a drought and more illegal burning, he added.
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There are hopes that China's reputation as a smog-belching heavy polluter might slowly be fading.
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Overlaying the credit chill effect on manufacturing activity has been Beijing's new "war on smog" policy.
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The energy agency's announcement follows the national observatory's first-ever national red alert for severe smog.
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This year, curbing diesel truck use has been a key part of Beijing's war on smog.
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Ozone is a component of smog and is linked to numerous respiratory ailments like asthma attacks.
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Those aerosols, which form a major component of smog, are considered a risk to human health.
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The Trump administration has decided to keep and defend the Obama administration's controversial 2015 smog regulation.
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The move also raises concerns that the MEE may be easing its tough stance on smog.
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Hongqiao's home city of Binzhou is subject to special environmental curbs in China's fight against smog.
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" This microscopic dust and soot typically comes from "automobile fumes, smog, soot, ash and construction dust.
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Many of the city's cultural institutions teetered, and a cloud of brown smog smeared the horizon.
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The city is known for frequent bouts of smog that force locals to wear face masks.
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The smog usually gets worse in the winter months as coal is burned to heat buildings.
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A tree sits between two buildings that tower through the thick smog in Jinan, Shandong province.
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The "view" from the Jin Mao Tower in the Puxi district of Shanghai amid heavy smog.
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People are seen on the street in smog during a polluted day in Shenyang, Liaoning province.
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Citizens walk across a bridge, their line of sight extremely short due to the thick smog.
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Dust and smog at low levels would scatter the light too much for an ideal sunset.
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In December, Beijing issued a red alert, because of what it called dire levels of smog.
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Beijing has wrenched all the levers of a centrally planned economy to wage war on smog.
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This war of numbers is probably going to last as long as Beijing's war on smog.
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The San Diego native remembers the days when the smog would blow down from Los Angeles.
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"Before smog, there was Forest Hills," he wrote in The New York Times in September 1977.
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He uses a positive ionization process to capture impossibly small dust particles that make up smog.
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When I went to Seoul this spring, South Korea was covered by a blanket of smog.
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More than 30 flights into New Delhi were canceled, because pilots couldn't see through the smog.
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Beijing is still reeling from a grimy November, and public anger over smog is running high.
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The metropolis is coping with an extended bout of dangerous winter pollution and smog this week.
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They argue that images of Delhi's smog clouds — and vomiting cricket players — will scare off investors.
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The crops lost between 2 to 22 percent of their yields as a result of smog.
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The crops lost between 2 to 22 percent of their yields as a result of smog.
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Once kids can reach the shelves of later middle-grade novels, the gendered smog thins considerably.
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The city's heavy smog often exceeds the levels of pollution the World Health Organization deems safe.
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Like much of northeastern China, even this region has enjoyed an unusual respite from the smog.
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Smog, seen here obscuring the George Washington Bridge in New York, was a far bigger problem.
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Smog continued to cover the city as Los Angeles expanded, which meant more factories and highways.
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A congested coastal highway divided the city from its sea, and the smog burned my eyes.
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A thick layer of smog covered Connaught Place, in the heart of New Delhi, on Saturday.
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Residents of China's smog-choked metropolises long ago grew accustomed to dealing with stubborn air pollutants.
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Today the thick brown smog that hovers over the capital obscures the view of the mountains.
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But heavy smog can make it difficult to get a decent view of downtown Los Angeles.
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Another example: The New York Times recently reported on the massive increase in smog over London.
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"Even in quiet times, Beijing can feel stifling: the police, the propaganda, the smog," he writes.
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Over time, strategies adopted in California to control smog-producing pollutants became standard across the country.
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The chemicals react in the atmosphere to create smog — just like the emissions from your car.
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California in the 20th century witnessed firsthand the negative effects of air pollution through crippling smog.
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The country is growing more opaque both literally and figuratively, as smog intensifies and data blurs.
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Such anti-smog alerts require steel mills to reduce their operations, curbing demand for steelmaking materials.
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The coronavirus pandemic gave China something it hasn't seen in years: bright, blue, smog-free skies.
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As a result, developed and developing cities are full of smog-belching cars, lorries and buses.
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Sales of high-ethanol blends are currently restricted during the summer due to concerns over smog.
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Letting a little smog leak from ChinaChina is considering forcing steel and aluminum producers to cut more output, banning coal in one of the country's top ports and shutting some fertilizer and drug plants as Beijing intensifies its war on smog, a draft policy document shows.
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Because of New York's strict regulations, the state has among the lowest emission levels of smog-causing nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, but some 13 million people, or 65 percent of the population, still breathe unhealthy levels of smog, James' office said in a statement.
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Residential buildings are seen shrouded in smog in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi, November 5.
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It's a sign of the Chinese capital's ability to control its notorious smog when it needs to.
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New skyscrapers and high-rise buildings are blanketed in heavy smog in Beijing's Central Business District, Dec.
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Thick smog fails to deter citizens from their morning exercise routine in Fuyang, China, earlier this year.
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A majority of the 39 cities failed to meet their anti-smog targets over the past winter.
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China's central government vowed to improve air quality during the winter in 28 smog-prone northern cities.
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But nowadays they've launched a war on smog; they've changed their attitude and they're learning really fast.
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In some cases the smog is so dense that it is difficult to spot the Taj Mahal.
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Plants on the outside of the building help reduce smog in the air and regulate indoor temperatures.
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In 2012, Kavanaugh struck down an EPA rule aimed at reducing soot and smog across state lines.
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But over the past two years, Beijing's worsening smog has wrapped my apartment in a permanent haze.
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The American people didn't vote to return to the dirty old days when smog choked our cities.
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In 1970, the United States was ill: widespread pollution poisoned water and obstructed the air with smog.
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However, visibility from the windows of an arriving airplane was poor because of smog enveloping the region.
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If deliveries were executed right, perhaps that could also mean less traffic and smog on the roads.
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Texas has three cities that received an "F" for smog: Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and El Paso.
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A decade or more ago, censors kept talk of smog to a minimum in state-owned media.
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Last week Milan became the latest city to banish cars from streets to curb its horrible smog.
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A lot of cities are looking at these types of ideas in an effort to reduce smog.
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Far from the big-city hustle and smog, there are miles of beaches, condos, and surf shacks.
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Handan, Xingtai and provincial capital Shijiazhuang are set to enforce emergency smog reduction measures from 6 p.m.
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And to do that he seems willing to do anything, including running cheerfully through smog-ridden Beijing.
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During the climate change summit in Paris he posted during a day of heavy smog in Beijing.
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But the Great Smog or Big Smoke, as this 1952 pea-souper was also known, was unprecedented.
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Everyone has seen photos of the terrible smog in cities like Shanghai, China or New Delhi, India.
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San Diego is a waste dump, and Las Vegas lurks in a tangerine dream of radioactive smog.
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Weather forecasts on Monday showed the smog would return to Beijing and nearby Tianjin city from Tuesday.
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As trade winds diminish, the area affected by vog -- or volcanic smog -- could expand, the agency said.
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Orange is the second-highest level on a three-tiered smog alert system that triggers emergency measures.
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Its old rival China is also hoping to find a relatively clean substitute for smog-producing coal.
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Researchers say agriculture is a larger contributor to California's smog problem than previously thought, Pacific Standard reports.
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Heavy smog continues to choke New Delhi, where emergency measures are in place to improve air quality.
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In the case of the mercury standards, the co-benefits included the reductions of soot and smog.
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It is linked to respiratory ailments like asthma attacks and is one of the components of smog.
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The Chinese want both to solve their crippling smog problem and look like a responsible global superpower.
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"The plastic fragments break down into little pieces that become the smog of the sea," Johnson said.
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Monstrous draglines gouged into spare mesas, and smog settled over valleys and obscured mesa and mountain views.
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Smog isn't gone from the United States, but its mitigation is a success story of environmental regulation.
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Smog ravaged the United States throughout the 20th century, both before and after the Clean Air Act.
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This month, a court said the Environmental Protection Agency had broken the law by delaying smog protections.
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"I think of it like smog," Mr. Stevenson said last week at his office in downtown Montgomery.
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Over time, fine particles of inhaled smog cause cardiovascular and lung issues, like lung cancer and stroke.
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Take Bakersfield, a city that has long been stereotyped as a place of smog and economic malaise.
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It is linked to respiratory ailments like asthma attacks, and is one of the components of smog.
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South Korea's capital has unveiled emergency measures to combat a thick layer of smog coating the city.
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Shepherds herd sheep whose fur has been blackened by the smog, and a cow chews on rubbish.
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Bangalore's higher elevation and moderate climate mean it doesn't get blanketed by smog like Gurgaon and Delhi.
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Images on Tuesday show the iconic Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur shrouded in gray smog.
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One of the most damaging and widespread forms of air pollution is ground-level ozone, or smog.
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A new program to clean pollution in smog-soaked neighborhoods helped close the deal, the aide said.
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The episode followed heavy criticism of the government for inaction during a prior bout of hazardous smog.
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While it's always bad at the start of winter, the smog is reaching crisis levels this year.
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Coastal waters polluted with sewage, in this view, are probably more worrisome than smog or deep caves.
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That year, as smog blanketed much of the country, it declared all-out war against air pollution.
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As many as 15 of the 28 smog-prone cities in and around the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region could still experience higher smog levels than two years ago, even if they meet their targets, stoking fears that China was easing off in a bid to reduce economic pressures.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Beijing residents have put up with choking smog, trash-filled rivers and toxic running tracks.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A smog-eating bike may soon be cruising through the Beijing streets.
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People overlooking smog in New York City, likely well prior to the passage of the Clean Air Act.
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But many large cities, including Beijing, have heavily restricted their use again this year to help prevent smog.
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Either humans have adapted to the new Earth or the poison smog drifted away, and Earth healed itself.
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But a recent shakeup in Southern California's top smog fighting agency might disrupt the region's clean air crusade.
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Wind conditions for Wednesday were forecast to result in widespread vog — or volcanic smog— over the Big Island.
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Under President George W. Bush, the EPA tried to issue relatively lax rules on smog and mercury pollution.
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The friend was ill because of the smog; the bus couldn't see Venetia because of the low visibility.
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The Creators Project: How different is the completed Smog Free Tower compared to when it was first conceived?
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Usually thick with smog, the Beijing air was crisp and clear on the day of Baidu's tech conference.
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It's been linked to a variety of respiratory problems, and can combine with other pollutants to form smog.
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Green groups want to extend the ban to smaller diesel cars and other smog-choked cities in India.
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Tourism threatens Africa's environment through construction of hotels, trash pollution of beaches, and increased smog from vehicle traffic.
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So maybe it makes perfect sense that Hecker now finds himself living in a city synonymous with smog.
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And, when you change only one letter at the end of the first word, it becomes Smog Wawelski.
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The move comes after the country's environment watchdog warned that smog was likely to blanket Hebei from Oct.
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Even if it hangs overhead, that sliver of luminous lunar rock can be obscured by clouds or smog.
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Some harrumphed about dodgy favours for the Taiwanese, such as the easing of a rule that limits smog.
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The smog got so bad it led to school closures as well as air and sea traffic disruptions.
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The smoke has contributed to a thick cloud of choking smog that has covered northern Italy for days.
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Of course it's unlikely something like [the Great Smog of 1952] is going to happen in our country.
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The province is one of six northern regions included in an intensive campaign to reduce smog this winter.
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It is currently banned for sale during the summer over concerns it contributes to smog in warm temperatures.
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Canoga Park sits in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley where a cloud of smog hangs above the community.
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Ozone, a major component of smog, was a likely culprit in the aggravation of Netzer's asthma, Diette said.
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Come hell or high water, Chicken Boy would once again brighten the smog-tufted skyline of Los Angeles.
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The industrial heartland of Hebei, Shandong and even the southwestern province Sichuan have issued smog alerts this week.
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The technology cuts smog particles down to a minimum, but does little to curb climate-warming carbon emissions.
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The government just embarked on another winter campaign against polluters in a dozen smog-prone provinces and regions.
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New Delhi, already one of the world's dirtiest cities, is experiencing its worst smog in nearly two decades.
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The cities of Harbin, Jiamusi, Shuangyashan and Hegang were covered in a blanket of chocking smog on Oct.
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Tourists wearing face masks take a selfie on the Tiananmen Square in heavy smog in Beijing, China, Dec.
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Last Thursday, officials from three northern cities had to explain their failure to meet targets for cutting smog.
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The smog-reducing requirements at issue will save hundreds of lives and prevent 230,85033 asthma attacks among children.
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But the protests about Beijing's smog demonstrated the limits of using economic growth as a proxy for legitimacy.
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A story about the smog last weekend in New Delhi is a reminder that he's not exactly wrong.
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RELATED: What's next for China's economy ENVIRONMENT In recent years, China's capital Beijing has become synonymous with smog.
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The sides of auto rickshaws are open to the elements, making drivers vulnerable to the effects of smog.
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SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top steelmaking province of Hebei has issued an "orange" smog alert effective from Nov.
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Everyday work doesn't stop in the smog — here, workers clean the exterior of the Shanghai World Financial Center.
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The government has also imposed tough measures on steel mills and heavy manufacturing this winter to curb smog.
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"However, the role of the Smog Free Tower as a warning sign is still very significant," he said.
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A house in North Birmingham is barely visible in industrial smog coming from the North Birmingham Pipe Plant.
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Smog was the name Bill Callahan recorded under until releasing albums under his own name, beginning in 2007.
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Unfortunately, acid rain wreaks havoc on delicate aquatic ecosystems, and smog and particulate matter negatively affect lung function.
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Smog from the drilling fields near Pinedale, Wyoming has turned once-pristine air into an industrial brown cloud.
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Do you feel you have a good understanding about the impact the smog is having on people's health?
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Smoke from firecrackers set off to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, also adds to smog levels.
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The U.S. mourns shooting victims, a thick smog creeps over India, a South Korean court revisits historic wounds.
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The Chinese public is increasingly worried about broader environmental issues like urban smog, water quality and soil pollution.
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His last initiative, the Smog Free Project, created awareness for air pollution, targeting China, where it matters most.
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Experts are hopeful that smog and particulate matter will dissipate soon, carried off by wind and ocean breezes.
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If you are interested in smog in cities, maybe you are pro-ethanol because of its oxygenating properties.
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"I'm not married, I'm single, but I always carry a smog free ring with me," he said, laughing.
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This is the view from the Los Angeles City Hall in 1954, after eight days of heavy smog.
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People wore masks to counter what the Washington Post described as "eye-burning, lung-stinging, headache-inducing smog."
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Sinosphere HONG KONG — Smog and corruption are among the problems that the Chinese government has vowed to combat.
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The people of Shanxi felt the disciplinary efforts were "like spring rain washing away the smog", he said.
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People overworked their heaters, and an absence of wind caused the smog to squat gloomily over the capital.
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A dense blanket of smog descends over Delhi each autumn, pushing air pollution readings to nearly unbearable levels.
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The settlement comes after the carmaker admitted in 220006 to using a device to cheat on smog tests.
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Scientists agree that spraying jets of water, especially from polluting trucks, will do little to disperse Bangkok's smog.
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In a 143-page winter smog "battleplan" posted on its website on Thursday, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said the new target, for the October to March period, would apply to Beijing and Tianjin, along with 26 other cities in the smog-prone provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and Henan.
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"Beijing has very low ground wind," he said, meaning that the corridors would not be effective to disperse smog.
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Studio Roosegaarde is teaming with the Chinese bike-sharing program Ofo to bring bicycles that inhale smog to Beijing.
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According to the release from Studio Roosegaarde, details about the Smog Free Bicycle's implementation will be released this fall.
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China saw the smog coming and last week issued its first red alert of the year for 2300 cities.
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After the race, those runners boarded planes back home, where the air is presumably cleaner than the Delhi smog.
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Ozone, or smog, develops in the upper atmosphere when emissions from tailpipes and smokestacks cook in the sun's heat.
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It, too, is reacting to the potential for significant capacity closures in the most smog-prone parts of China.
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The downward circulation should keep the atmosphere clear of the photochemical smog particles, and may explain the blue color.
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"Air pollution is in a way an old issue," he said, referring to decades of efforts to limit smog.
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"Thus, early warnings about smog, a kind of meteorological calamity, cannot be issued by the meteorological administration," it said.
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In high concentrations it can also lead to formations of smog, which is linked to heart and lung damage.
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This week, thick and toxic smog engulfed India's capital, New Delhi, a city of more than 21 million residents.
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That was the first suggestion that something larger was at play — it wasn't just that the smog was bad.
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But as the smog lifts, Churchill is able to manipulate the media in his favor, and she gives up.
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However, Environment Minister Li Ganjie has warned that some regions have lost "momentum" when it comes to curbing smog.
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Blaine is originally from Los Angeles, where he learned the difference between fog and smog at an early age.
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It wasn't just the smog and the poverty, the consumerism, the debt, and the shop-till-you-drop ethos.
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In recent months, amid persistent dense smog in Beijing and many other cities, alarm and anger have been growing.
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NPR reports:The study looked at levels of ground-level ozone (the key component in smog) from 1980 to 2014.
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But the problem with bans like this is that as soon as the cars return, so does the smog.
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"It's a pollution disaster zone," said Tang Xian, a customer from one of China's most smog-choked provinces, Hebei.
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He came running out of Beijing's thick smog at the 2100 Summer Olympics like a tornado blowing through Oklahoma.
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Some winter days, when the city's smog is particularly bad, "I don't send my daughter to school," he admits.
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The prime minister, who grew up in Lahore, said he sees tackling the city's smog problem as a priority.
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But overall the environmental damage is severe, in terms both of adding smog to cities and accelerating climate change.
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China has ordered mills across the northern part of the country to cut production over winter to limit smog.
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City dwellers, meanwhile, took "smog selfies" as they strolled through air so dirty you can taste and smell it.
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Other selfie snappers joined hundreds of protesters in downtown New Delhi to demand the government address the deadly smog.
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It costs more to make summer-grade gasoline, which has a lower vapor pressure to prevent smog, she explained.
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"As many as two in three New Yorkers are breathing unhealthy levels of smog," Underwood said in a statement.
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The particularly bad smog hovering over east Malaysia's state of Sabah has forced 77 schools to close this week.
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He's assembled each year of images into a single composite, an at-a-glance record of Beijing's smog problem.
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Smog and particulate matter damage people's lungs and result in lost work and school time due to respiratory illnesses.
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It plans to wage an "iron-fisted" campaign against smog this winter, provincial governor Xu Qin said this week.
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Southern Poland has the worst smog in the EU, and Katowice is surrounded by coal mines and power plants.
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The following year Li Keqiang, the prime minister, declared a "war on pollution", describing smog as nature's "red light".
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The mines halt is part of concerted efforts by China to tame increasingly severe winter smog in industrial centres.
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Cover: An Indian jogger wears a pollution mask early morning amidst light smog in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct.
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Even people without lung problems may find themselves coughing and out of breath under the blanket of toxic smog.
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Indian boys sit around a small fire as the morning sun is enveloped by a blanket of smog, Nov.
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About 1,000 children ran a race in Delhi in the early hours of Thursday, despite the thick toxic smog.
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Air quality measurements provided by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee track smog levels across the city in real time.
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Los Angeles ranked as the most smog-filled metro area in the ALA's annual State of the Air report.
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The National Weather Service reported heavy vog, or volcanic smog, blanketing the inner and southern parts of the island.
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Such environmental constraints are going to remain in force until Beijing starts winning its self-declared war on smog.
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Bangkok residents were advised to stay inside and wear protective masks on Monday as toxic smog reached dangerous levels.
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Dan Frankel said the President wanted to go back to the days when Pittsburgh was engulfed in daytime smog.
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But it has run into problems with the country's notorious smog and tight internet controls putting some people off.
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And disproportionately, air pollution like the soot and smog that comes from cars and trucks impacts communities of color.
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The colors, the smells, the cuisine, the smog in D.F. The chaos and decay is all a daily inspiration.
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Elsewhere, in November 1953, smog killed between 170 and 260 people in New York City; 1963: 200; 1966: 169.
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Mulan got down to business to defeat the Huns, only to have her beloved country become covered in smog.
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But out here between the smog and the concrete, a seed spliced with Google genes has found fertile soil.
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The restrictions have been in place out of concerns that burning more ethanol in hot weather contributes to smog.
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Smog, traffic, budget deficits, a recession, a drought, student protests, racial unrest had all changed the complexion of California.
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After Mr. Xi told northern Chinese provinces to cut smog, cadres junked home heaters and stoves, leaving residents shivering.
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For them, a smog day was just like a snow day, only spent indoors — next to the air purifiers.
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The Philadelphia works are bathed in the orange light of dusk, seen through what looks like a nuclear smog.
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At other times, the cars emitted far more nitrogen oxide, a lung irritant that also causes smog, than permitted.
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Here, the outline of the sun can be made out thanks to Los Angeles smog, early in the 1970s.
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" A Weibo commenter wrote, "I wonder why the smog keeps getting worse if the government is working on solutions.
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This would further amplify the threat to us from extreme weather, smog and tropical diseases linked to climate change.
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Warmer temperatures as a result of climate change mean that the smog hovers over this region, growing and stagnating.
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"Not obviously perfect with the smog but it's the same for both the teams," the South African told reporters.
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"The government should formulate an inclusive strategy to combat the smog instead of just shutting the kilns," she suggested.
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The smog is the main reason people have seen people in China wearing face masks before this coronavirus outbreak.
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A pagoda-esque "Smog Free Tower" popped up in Beijing in 2016 and the "CityTree" in Paris in 2017.
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New Delhi Flights have been canceled and schools closed as the Indian capital grapples with "unbearable" levels of smog.
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"One question not addressed is whether smog stabilizes bacteria in a way that normal air does not," he added.
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And smog has been linked to higher rates of stroke, heart attack, diabetes, lung cancer and chronic lung disease.
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That soot and smog more often impact minority and low-income communities, which likely reside in high-pollution areas.
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Health agencies estimate that 460 million people have been exposed to smog levels six times higher than recommended levels.
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Some of the smog in the parks might come from cars or blows in from urban areas, Rudik said.
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The settlement comes after the car maker admitted in 28503 to using a device to cheat on smog tests.
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Yes, like mentioned in the news, currently many Australian landmark buildings, including Sydney Opera House, are covered in smog.
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Even with its traffic, sprawl, and unrelenting smog, the iridescent veneer of celebrity lends the city a unique allure.
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China wants to avoid images of its notorious choking smog and show Beijing in clear skies, the analysts said.
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In 2018, the region violated federal smog standards 87 days in a row, the longest stretch in 20 years.
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For years, fires in Sumatra have caused the rest of Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia to choke under the smog.
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Volkswagen later adopted the technology to meet American limits on nitrogen oxides, which cause lung ailments and urban smog.
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The dense smog is being blamed for car crashes, including a 24-car motorway pileup just outside the city.
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Their vehicles are cobbled together from the husks of our now devastated civilisation, beasts of twisted metal, belching out smog.
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The Ministry of Environmental Protection revealed on Sunday that some businesses had broken rules about cutting production during smog alerts.
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"Taking a fresh breath of smog, it has a familiar smell," one user said on China's version of Twitter, Weibo.
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This recent bout of heavy smog began in mid-December, covering an area roughly the size of the United States.
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Some of China's northern provinces have ordered factories to throttle back or halt output to reduce notoriously thick winter smog.
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So does a switch away from the more expensive blend of gasoline required in the summer months to control smog.
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The instruction has drawn ire from online commentators who ask why weather authorities are not allowed to post smog warnings.
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In January, Poland's health minister, Konstanty Radziwill, said that complaints about smog are unconvincing in a country where many smoke.
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For that reason, this area relies on the East Asian Winter Monsoon — and its winds — to wipe out the smog.
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Some local governments have blamed unfavorable weather conditions for the increase in smog over the late 2018-early 2019 period.
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FOR anyone who has tried jogging through smog, the physically sapping impacts of air pollution should come as no surprise.
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The company's technology was not sufficient to comply with emissions standards for smog-forming pollutants, particularly in the United States.
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When the smog has been at its worst in recent weeks, no one in my family dared to venture outside.
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Scott's death eventually leads Churchill to reassess his previous position on the smog and rally to come to London's rescue.
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He is well known to environmental activists and mainstream researchers for questioning the scientific evidence tying health risks to smog.
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And if you add sulfuric acid (in vog [volcanic smog], for example) to sugar, you get a pretty spectacular reaction.
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The move is part of the government's efforts to tackle smog as well as to cut excess steel production capacity.
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The increase could boost volcanic smog known as vog, but trade winds are currently carrying most of the gas offshore.
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Guangzhou sits 120 kilometers (75 miles) north-west of Hong Kong, often laboring under a haze of stifling gray smog.
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The smog from the cars settles in the valley, resulting in some of the worst air quality in the country.
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Daily readings from these monitors show up on local weather reports, when there's a smog warning in effect, for example.
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In 1948, a severe bout of smog killed 20173 people and sickened 7,000 in the small town of Donora, Pennsylvania.
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I don't quite understand his art form, but his work can make more people know about smog in Beijing, right?
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These hazardous gases create soot and smog and cause thousands of premature deaths and hospitalizations from asthma attacks every year.
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Production disruption during last year's winter smog restrictions sent Chinese alumina prices soaring and they too are now marching higher.
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On several days last winter particulate levels in London exceeded those in Beijing, the Chinese capital infamous for its smog.
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Cities such as Beijing have for years been choking on the smog spewing from the country's huge industrial production sector.
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The provincial government has pledged to curb concentrations of hazardous smog particles, known as PM2.5, by 14 percent by 2020.
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They range from North Korea to smog to a new fad for wearing lapel badges bearing Mr Xi's beatific visage.
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Assiduous teachers in Malaysia and China may instruct students online on days when the smog keeps them away from school.
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If adopted, the move would be another sign of Beijing fine-tuning policy in its years-long fight against smog.
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That smog, made up of smoke, motor exhaust, factory emissions and construction dust, is enough to make people's eyes water.
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Ethanol also cuts down on smog and reduces carbon emissions by an average of 43 percent, according to federal data.
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The smog-plagued province has already cut coal consumption by 44 million tonnes between 2013 and 2017, according to Xinhua.
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Innovations abound, including air purifiers that are attached to bicycles and outdoor towers that are meant to suck up smog.
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Delaware says more than 90 percent of ground-level ozone, or smog, in Delaware originates from emissions in upwind states.
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JLL's Kumar said more smog could see foreigners packing their bags, a blow to real estate as well as employment.
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Smog, congestion and cost: Travelling in a dense urban environment can be a stressful situation at the best of times.
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Oppressive heat and humidity, often combined with monsoon rains and soaring smog levels, make summer an excretory season in Korea.
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China's biggest cities are choking on smog and air pollution caused by nearby coal plants, and residents are fed up.
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Winter has arrived in Beijing, and residents are struggling to escape the heavy smog that has settled on the city.
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"Life in the smog is very strange," Siddharth Singh, a resident of Noida, a satellite city of Delhi, told CNN.
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Feng said city inspectors had been too "passive" and had failed to properly forecast smog build-ups or supervise industries.
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India, a country that heavily relies on fossil fuels, has high-levels of life-threatening smog in its big cities.
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Opinion LOS ANGELES — Before the fires came, our skin turned dry and the winds cleared the smog from the air.
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For each 10 parts per billion increase in ozone, a main component of smog, there was a 0.51 percent increase.
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" Under Bush's EPA, meanwhile, administrator Stephen Johnson "suppress[ed] staff recommendations on pesticides, mercury, lead paint, smog, and global warming.
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Some might question the romantic appeal of a smog free ring, but Ms. Stein, 27, a staunch environmentalist, remains delighted.
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But it wasn't until the early 1950s that car exhaust was established as one of the primary causes of smog.
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President Donald Trump has said he'll revoke the state's ability to set auto-emission standards, which could mean more smog.
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Previously, U.S. regulators had said certain Audi diesels had software designed to reduce smog-causing emissions generated by diesel engines.
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"We cannot end smog at all but we are trying to reduce it through steps at all levels," Rehman said.
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If you turn around, you can see a great layer of smog, lying over northern India like a dirty shroud.
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The measures will last as long as the city's current level 2 smog alert is in effect, said the official.
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Experts say the country's use of coal and diesel has resulted in increasing air pollution, exacerbated by smog from China.
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In 2018, the region violated federal smog standards 87 days in a row, the longest single stretch in 20 years.
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Changing weather patterns have reduced wind, which helps blow away the smog in several of the country's most populous cities.
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Thanksgiving weekend in 1966 was warm, and a haze of smog — sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide — wrapped around the city.
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Air pollution in winter is different from the ground-level ozone smog that hits cities like Los Angeles in summer.
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The plan also emphasizes the need for "ventilation corridors" that would channel wind and air movement to help disperse smog.
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They're upcycled Victorian-era maid smocks (so "Downton Abbey"-meets-"It"!) in a lovely light chartreuse color called Smog Factory.
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In the environmental context, we might imagine some smog sensor registered a sufficiently high reading to trigger escalating highway tolls.
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Those carbon dioxide emissions are not smog-forming V.O.C.s, though they are a major driver of human-caused climate change.
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As winter pollution gripped much of northern China last month, the health ministry told state media it had no data linking smog to cancer, and it was too early to reach any conclusions about the impact of PM2.5 - the tiny particles that form smog - on human health, though foreign researchers say the evidence was available.
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In what they described as "a limited set of deeply sequenced air samples from a Beijing smog event," they identified about 64 types of antibiotic-resistant genes, making Beijing smog one of two environments with "the largest relative abundance and/or diversity" of antibiotic-resistant genes, including genes with resistance to last-resort antibiotics.
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Cutting coal and encouraging cleaner forms of energy is a major part of China's efforts to reduce smog and greenhouse gases.
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Steel mills have been cutting production since mid-November as part of government efforts to fend off smog in winter months.
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Authorities often take steps to limit smog, like banning high-polluting vehicles from the road, when red alerts are in effect.
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Smog levels in Beijing dropped below "Hazardous" on Tuesday to "Very Unhealthy," according to the Embassy's 6-tier air quality guide.
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Smog and greenhouse gas emissions could rise if those cars run on petroleum instead of electricity, hydrogen or other fuel alternatives.
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While the Great Smog plays a central role in The Crown, the panic it shows was apparently not all together accurate.
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New Delhi officials have declared the city's smog a public health emergency, after the air quality index hit levels considered unsafe.
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RESIDENTS have found something else to blame for the toxic smog that envelops many Chinese cities for much of the year.
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Images of the city this week show it blanketed in a thick yellow smog, some buildings barely visible through the haze.
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As state media admit, smog is likely to be a topic that is much discussed at the 12-day parliamentary session.
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The Chinese capital is in the midst of an intense smog alert, resulting in highway closures and hundreds of flight cancellations.
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The result is an app which allows people to report smog levels by uploading an image tagged with time and location.
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This year, the government launched a "Stop Smog" scheme to help poorer Poles modernise their houses' insulation, thereby reducing energy consumption.
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A study in 2017 showed that there's a link between shrinking Arctic ice and a build-up of smog in China.
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Photos showed dense clouds of smog enveloping parts of the city and residents wearing masks to avoid breathing in the air.
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Despite a brief respite on Monday, smog returned to the Chinese capital on Tuesday, with PM2.5 readings again at "hazardous" levels.
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The ban was put in place as an anti-smog measure, though studies have since shown its environmental benefits are limited.
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Air Pollution Kills 5.5 Million People Every Year WorldwideThe smog hovering over many major cities is not just an unhealthy inconvenience.
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Despite what authorities called an "encouraging start," the city is still blanketed in smog, as you can see in these images.
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The red alerts are expected to stay in place until Wednesday, as the country struggles with a thick layer of smog.
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Last year, smog in New Delhi covered the region similarly because of winter weather patterns, and it's back with a vengeance.
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"The cabinet has decided to spend voluntary donations on health, education and reducing smog as well as public infrastructure," he added.
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Beijing, which has become synonymous with smog since the country's rapid industrialization, ranked 59th-worst with a PM2.5 count of 85.
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The New Delhi government blames the smog in part on the burning of crop residues in neighboring Punjab and Haryana states.
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Shortages of firewood have led many migrants to burn plastics and clothes creating a toxic smog over the camp at night.
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Some big, polluted cities, like Guigang, are using mist cannons, which shoot into the air a spray that disperses smog particles.
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Noxious fumes may not be as visible as the smog of old, but they are always there, storing up cancer risk.
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The winter cuts are part and parcel of Beijing's war on smog, which can be particularly acute over the winter months.
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China said last year the new ethanol mandate would boost industrial demand for corn and help clean up its choking smog.
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Steel-making producers in Linyi city, in China's coastal Shandong province, have been shuttered after intense smog choked China's major cities.
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Smog from the fires is blanketing much of Siberia, from Kazakhstan to the Bering Sea, with carbon monoxide and other nasties.
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Output drops of 30 million tonnes or more are expected in China this winter as Beijing intensifies its war on smog.
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Regulators said tests found that the cars could emit up to 40 times the U.S. legal limit of smog-forming pollutants.
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It said last month that 487 officials in smog-hit Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, would be punished for environmental failings.
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Smog obscured the blue sky and distant buildings even on days the nation's Ministry of Environmental Protection reported excellent air quality.
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But the city claimed it was making bigger, long-term changes to both transportation and manufacturing (factories also contribute to smog).
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NOx is a key contributor to smog and a major health hazard, so monitoring it will help track its major sources.
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Turns out this oppressive smog is a pungent combination of an ancient farming technique and the residues of modern urban living.
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When Dawson realized no books about the Great Smog of 1952 had been written, she decided to pick up the project.
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The updated Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) restricts power plant emissions of nitrogen oxide that contribute to downwind smog problems.
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State firms facing caps on coal production and targets to reduce consumption in smog-prone regions have responded by heading overseas.
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The smog is affecting Tianjin (about 80 miles from Beijing) and cities across Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Hubei provinces.
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In recent years, China has pushed efforts to curb its annual smog, which affects large swathes of the country during winter.
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Read more: Thailand might move its capital somewhere else because Bangkok is getting too busy and is constantly covered in smog
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These actions resulted in thousands of excess tons of harmful smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NOx) to be emitted into the air.
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Only six metro areas recorded no days when smog or short-term soot pollution was at an unhealthy level: Melbourne, Fla.
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Those documents will lay out the plan for the review process and the scientific literature on ozone, a component of smog.
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But inside, a powerful vacuum uses ionization technology to suck up smog, filter out the dangerous particles and release purified air.
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Benzene is a known carcinogen, and other evaporated hydrocarbons contribute to the formation of ground-level ozone smog and particulate matter.
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Though it might not be clear, this is the George Washington Bridge going over the Hudson River, covered in thick smog.
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"We took stock of how bad the smog and pollution level had reached," said Ms. Indu, who uses only one name.
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Dense clouds of dangerous toxic smog suffocated Bangkok's air on Monday, forcing residents to seek shelter inside and wear special masks.
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"When the smog gets heavy, there is a strange smell in the air," one Beijing native told Marketplace earlier this year.
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In reality, it's just a subtler version of Wehrum's earlier attempts to undermine EPA limits on soot- and smog-forming pollution.
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Since October residents of the capital, home to more than 20 million people, have struggled to breathe under a thick smog.
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Think of city smog, and you might think of the 1950s pea soupers or the soft black drizzle of Dickensian London.
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This is not shocking news: Indian cities, including the capital, New Delhi, make international news for their choking smog every winter.
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But neither of them have ever made straightforwardly heavenly music—there's always been at least a little smog in the sunset.
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My favorite, though, would have to be Smog Cutter in East Hollywood, even though I'm kind of cheating on location here.
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Municipal authorities in Mexico City said they are planning to implement more modern technology at smog-check centers starting July 1.
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The agency estimates that in 2010, rules on soot and smog kept 164,000 Americans from dying prematurely, mostly from heart attacks.
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And Beijing's toxic smog problem is no doubt a partial result of emissions from the 5.5 million cars on its roads.
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California as a whole already has the highest levels of particulate air pollution—otherwise known as smog—in the United States.
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The majority of smog's affect on human life expectancy comes from smog generated from fossil fuel plants in China and India.
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Unfortunately, it's become normal for the city's skyline to disappear during the winter, as the wind drops and the smog settles.
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As Masih told NPR, unless the government or an overarching agency does something, New Delhi's smog problem won't just blow away.
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NEW DELHI — In the dense smog that engulfed India's capital early this month, a baby named Vaishnavi gasped through the night.
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In addition to crop burning, the smog worsens as people set off firecrackers to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
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On Thursday, the authorities issued a red pollution alert — the highest level — for Beijing, with heavy smog expected Friday through Wednesday.
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A U.S. porn star's refund offer, a high-ranking scandal in Japan and some good news from China's war on smog.
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I had flown into that airport a few hours before the crash, and the skies were choked with dust and smog.
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The swirling cloud of dust and smog that permeates the city seeps into the hefty, spinning shwarma spits on the street.
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The country's top steelmaking city of Tangshan last week summoned 48 companies and ordered them to trim output to reduce smog.
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We lobbied for smog devices on cars, clean-fuel buses, all the stuff big and small to clean up the air.
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Heat islands cause about 20% of the formation of urban smog, which then traps even more hot air in a city.
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But like the mercury rule, it would also, as a collateral benefit, have reduced other dangerous pollutants like smog and soot.
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The Trump administration attempted to delay, but was eventually forced to proceed due to lawsuits, clean air protections against smog pollution.
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Yet the Trump EPA has abandoned its responsibilities — repeatedly failing to act to control smog pollution that jeopardizes New Yorkers' health.
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She "rebuffed proposals to strengthen smog rules and repeatedly allowed large polluters to increase emission limits," according to the Texas Observer.
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If players had to wait out New Delhi's smog, they would never practice, because there are few indoor courts in India.
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Diesel engines offered better fuel economy than gasoline motors but also produced more nitrogen oxide emissions, a major component of smog.
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Winter smog controls are expected to keep a lid on heavy industries in some parts of the country in coming months.
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Major cities in China are well known for being choked by smog, due to the extensive burning of coal by factories.
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Practice sessions at the Open on Monday were halted because of the smog, and matches were delayed two hours on Wednesday.
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Analysts expect producer price pressures to recede as the war on smog curtails production, cooling demand from factories for raw materials.
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This class of chemicals — known as volatile organic compounds — is extremely potent and is blamed for helping create blankets of smog.
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Tehran is especially susceptible to trapped smog, as the metropolitan area, home to over 8 million people, is surrounded by mountains.
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Under some measures, such as extremely small air particles, the smog in New Delhi and Beijing is much worse than London.
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Recently, the problem has been particularly bad, and the city has been enveloped in smog for extended periods starting in October.
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The sunshine enhances photochemical smog activities and the formation of ozone during the daytime, resulting in high pollution in the region.
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On Thanksgiving Day in 235, a thick toxic smog covered New York City, and about 22.108 people died from inhaling it.
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China's speedy industrial development has seen it struggling to regulate waste disposal, leading to toxic waterways and cities blanketed in smog.
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Now China—a nation grappling with dangerous smog from coal plants, factories, and vehicles—will get green buildings of its own.
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Cover: An Indian boy looks as city's sky line is seen enveloped in thick smog in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov.
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Nitrogen oxides are considered a cause of lung ailments like asthma and cancer, and are the main cause of urban smog.
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This measure of how readily it evaporates (and contributes to ground-level smog) is expressed by the gasoline's Reid vapor pressure.
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That's the terrible question Kate Winkler Dawson raises in DEATH IN THE AIR: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City (Hachette, $27), her deeply researched and densely atmospheric study of two intersecting events in London, the murder spree of John Reginald (Reg) Christie and the Great Smog of 1952.
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The Indian Meteorological Department reported that on November 2nd, 2016 Delhi was hit by the worst smog and visibility in 17 years.
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We want to bring back the bicycle as a cultural icon of China and as the next step towards smog free cities.
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As of Saturday, the smog covered 2860 million square kilometers (1683 million square miles), according to the country's Ministry of Environmental Protection.
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The rocky mountain ranges, the dozens of craft breweries, the looming Salt Laky City Temple are all shrouded in gravy-thick smog.
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Less than 1 percent of passenger cars are now new energy, but the pace of growth raises their potential to worsen smog.
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Canada's weather department added smog warnings for certain areas of the province on Thursday, when the heat wave is forecast to end.
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The ministry has routinely named and shamed local governments and enterprises in northern China for failing to comply with anti-smog regulations.
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But Southern California's persistent smog has been closing schools, filling emergency rooms, and causing premature deaths for more than half a century.
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Reuters also said that "Chinese steel and iron ore futures dropped for a sixth consecutive session," attributing this to the heavy smog.
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When dumps or landfills catch fire, as more than 70 have in Poland over the sweltering summer, noxious smog smothers their surroundings.
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In lieu of the worsening smog, Chiang Mai authorities have advised its residents to put on respiratory masks when leaving their homes.
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On top of cleaning up its smog-filled cities, combating climate change is a key part of China's current five-year plan.
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In the winter of 2013, Beijing and other cities in the East China Plains became blanketed in thick, eye-stinging, gray smog.
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A particularly intense example caused the Great Smog of London in 1952, when four days of air pollution contributed to 12,000 deaths.
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Mr. Pruitt also backed down on a proposal to delay implementing smog regulations and another to withdraw a regulation on mercury pollution.
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The project secured a major tax break from the state despite complaints that the project could violate EPA standards by exacerbating smog.
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A country can have soft power and smog as well (America has had plenty of both in much of its recent history).
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In summer, intense heat creates an updraft, lifting smog to altitudes where monsoon winds off the Indian Ocean can largely disperse it.
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Unlike Beijing, whose efforts to purge itself of smog have made impressive headway, India's capital is not run by top-down command.
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Beijing's war on smog injects a whole new level of uncertainty into China's shifting steel dynamics, disrupting both production and consumption norms.
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A couple months ago, we picked up and moved to our first house, away from the smog-covered hills of Los Angeles.
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The summer ban was put in place as an anti-smog measure, though studies have since shown its environmental benefits are limited.
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Last year's net impact underwhelmed relative to expectations but the war on winter smog will encompass more cities and provinces this year.
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Images captured by NASA's Suomi satellite on September 18th (top) confirm that wildfire smog still envelops a vast swath of central Russia.
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Hebei, regarded as China's most polluted province, said it would learn lessons from last week's smog and draw up more "focused measures".
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If you live in an area with semi-permanent smog (like many major cities in Southeast Asia), the answer is pretty obvious.
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The development is a flashy but tiny effort to combat the dangerous smog and toxic air pollution that's choking China's industrialized cities.
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China's war on smog and plans to curtail output in the winter is expected to limit aluminium supply this year, boosting prices.
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That's followed by dramatic images of smog at a Chinese airport, and we're updating the standoff near the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Cities in Hebei, which include the top steelmaking hub of Tangshan, are set to enforce emergency smog reduction measures from 6 p.m.
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In the last week, most of the cities in the Guangdong province have been blanketed with smog, with little to no visibility.
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Wind energy also greatly reduces a variety of health-harming air pollutants, including smog-causing sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx).
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Air pollution in the Thai capital has come under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks with residents complaining of smog and respiratory problems.
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So many delegations of would-be investors flocked to Tehran that visitors reported struggling to find rooms in the smog-choked city.
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Similarly, during significant volcano eruptions, global temperatures can go down because the ash and smog deflects solar radiation away from the earth.
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New emails reveal that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exempted Utah oil and gas producers from key smog requirements, according to Politico.
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Delhi's air quality worsens Air quality measurements provided by air quality monitoring stations track smog levels across the city in real time.
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Unfavorable weather conditions, including rising humidity and weak southerly winds, would make it harder for smog particles to be diffused, it said.
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On Saturday the environment ministry cautioned that heavy smog would return next week to Beijing, the province of Hebei and nearby Tianjin.
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Some regions are going further—an "anti-smog" law adopted in 2015 enables them to make their own rules on household heating.
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This, in combination with current weather conditions of cool temperatures and low wind speeds, means that smog can fester in the city.
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For example, an appeals court reinstated a methane leak rule, and a lawsuit prompted EPA to stop delaying an ozone smog rule.
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We parked in a dirt lot, climbed a hill and reached an unexpected new world, removed from Kingston's heavy traffic and smog.
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They have been curbing industrial output, thinning traffic and cracking down on coal use in a bid to limit smog build-ups.
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The market for all kinds of pollution-fighting tools is booming in many smog-choked cities in China, India and Southeast Asia.
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Criticism of palm oil plantation owners and companies like APRIL intensified after catastrophic 2015 forest fires blanketed the region in choking smog.
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Eight cities in Hebei launched "red alerts" last week in response to the smog, which reached record levels at some monitoring stations.
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Increased temperatures trap more ozone, and exacerbate smog and particulate matter in the air, she explained, causing more respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
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Essentially what that does is attract positively charged particles in the smog to a negatively charged surface inside the tower, he said.
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The 20 million people that live in Mexico City and its surrounding suburbs are plagued daily by a hazy layer of smog.
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There's a really shitty karaoke bar called the Smog Cutter, which is very close to our house that we often go to.
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Beneath the sky, a band of grey smog hangs on the horizon—under that, the creeping 101, the spindly marquees of hotels.
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The city is not nearly as choked with smog as it was a generation ago, though the drought has undoubtedly exacerbated it.
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These conditions create a temperature inversion, trapping particulates underneath a layer of warm air -- meaning there's nowhere for the smog to go.
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The concept of smog as a meteorological disaster is "controversial," read the headline of an analysis in The Beijing News on Thursday.
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We have had a variety of air-quality advisories as smog is blanketing cities in the interior and within the lower mainland.
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They often don't use technologies like selective catalytic reduction, a method to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions that cause smog and acid rain.
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Once on our shared roads, cars are recalled for defects; if they fail inspection or smog tests, they're taken off the road.
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The epic smog is also pulling down the economy and, according to a new Unicef report, might be permanently damaging children's brains.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently prohibits summer sales of gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol, or E15, due to smog concerns.
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The city had also failed to properly coordinate its anti-smog efforts and not taken action to combat small "scattered" pollution sources.
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The government has made strides in curbing smog and slowing the growth of emissions of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases.
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Once released, they interact with other particles to create the building blocks of smog, which can trigger asthma and other health problems.
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The EPA estimated that implementing these rules would have reduced exposure to smog-causing volatile organic compounds by 50,000 tons per year.
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After making a prototype, he couldn't figure out what to do with the buckets of smog particles left over from the process.
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In the past week, a thick layer of smog has enveloped the city, with people complaining of irritated eyes, throats and lungs.
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Eight northeastern states are suing the Trump administration for denying their request to further crack down on smog pollution from nearby states.
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After the turn of the millennium, California's leaders turned their attention from smog—largely gone from the state's air—to climate change.
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Mome Saleem, an Islamabad-based environmentalist, said the closure of the kilns would help cut smog but other industries needed attention too.
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Aslam, the Prime Minister's adviser, said the government was moving now to try to avoid smog problems in the months to come.
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For "Presidential Commemorative Smog Plates," Kim Abeles left dinner plates, each stenciled with an American president's face, on her Los Angeles rooftop.
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And while New York City's smog affects our ability to cloudgaze, Mr. Homenuk suggested going to a local rooftop for optimal vistas.
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The state government has declared a state of emergency, and the smog reaches as far as Melbourne, where it blanketed the city.
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During one bad period of smog in New Delhi in late 2017, breathing outdoors was equivalent to smoking 44 cigarettes a day.
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High smog levels, Warsaw authorities warned, could be especially dangerous for children, older residents, pregnant women and people with existing health issues.
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And Xinhua, the state news agency, said the smog in Beijing was expected to last until a cold front arrives next week.
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More recently, scientists have said that there is a dangerous cycle at work: Weather patterns from climate change are exacerbating the smog.
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Accurate data is key to China's anti-pollution campaign as it works to develop a more nuanced, scientific approach to cutting smog.
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Aluminium smelters were included in a proposal to switch off key industrial sectors over the winter months to alleviate Beijing's choking smog.
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My sons' school, like more than 400 across the Thai capital, will be closed on Thursday and Friday because of the smog.
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But they also emit more nitrogen oxides, which can cause asthma and other serious lung ailments and are responsible for urban smog.
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"All these measures, all these plans are in place, but it still can't solve the smog," said Li, the steel mill owner.
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The smog poses serious public health threats, including causing or aggravating heart disease, heightening cancer risks and elevating mortality among more vulnerable populations.
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He has also advanced an initiative to lift a summertime ban on higher ethanol blends of gasoline that was enacted to curb smog.
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Air pollution has been under the spotlight in Bangkok, one of the world's most popular tourist cities, with many residents complaining about smog.
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Choking smog continued to blanket a vast area of the mainland, disrupting schools and traffic on the second day of the new year.
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Bikes are, by their peddle-powered nature, smog free, and the social impact design may be successful in encouraging more people to ride.
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The thick blanket of smog caused a major vehicle pile-up on a busy highway on the outskirts of Delhi, Indian media reported.
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On top of lava, ash clouds and plumes of deadly laze (lava and haze), officials are also warning about vog, or volcanic smog.
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We've had some pretty bad smog events this summer, and I'd hate to see the effort get sidetracked over an ill-advised note.
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Brown was seen as an environmental champion in the 1970s when he criticized oil executives as being "distressingly slow" to California's smog problems.
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The falcon, the falconer and the artist together suggest a wild and poetic freedom, within the oppressive smog and stress of urban chaos.
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With smog levels at an all-time high in Chiang Mai, Thailand, thousands of residents are now dealing with pollution-related health issues.
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Inventories are also tight because California refineries just shifted to making summer blend gasoline, which is formulated to reduce smog during warmer weather.
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In New Delhi, my senses were assaulted as I walked through smog so thick and smelly that it made hazy Beijing feel refreshing.
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Born of air pollution and fog, the smog regularly shuts down the local airport and casts a pall over this beautiful medieval city.
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Many foreigners now associate the country with smog—an important reason why 37% fewer international tourists visited China in 2015 than in 2007.
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AROUND 2012, dubs of an unreleased album made the rounds in tastemaker circles before finally reaching Smog Veil Records, a boutique record label.
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The top pic shows what the Delhi skyline looked like before the current bout of smog, the bottom as it appears this month.
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Last year, China relied on coal to provide 64 percent of its primary energy, contributing to the choking smog smothering its major cities.
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The shades — Bruise, Roach, Smog, Plague, UV-B, Pallor, Asphyxia, Oil Slick, and Frostbite — are the brand's original lipstick colors, launched in '96.
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Scientists at National University of Singapore have created a transparent smog-filtering window screen that could make our lives a little less wheezy.
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Last year's choking festive smog hung for days, with the level of PM2.5 pushing well beyond 30 times what humans can safely breathe.
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Local meteorologists said the change in prevailing winds could send Kilauea's volcanic smog, or vog, northwest to Maui and other islands in Hawaii.
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In the US and around the world, smog was becoming deadly and evidence was growing that pollution led to developmental delays in children.
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Smog in Mexico City is caused by a combination of vehicle emissions, heavy industrial output, and the city's high-altitude bowl-shaped valley.
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Large swaths of China's north were enshrouded in smog in mid-December, prompting officials to order hundreds of factories and schools to close.
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According to the press release, Rotterdam's Smog Free Tower cleans 30,000m3 per hour using no more green electricity than a waterboiler (1,400 watts).
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Along with governments, NGOs, pro-bicycle campaigns, and the clean-tech industry, people can work together to make a whole city smog-free.
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The smog has been particularly noticeable in the recent week across Malaysia and Singapore, with many noting a burning smell in the air.
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Driving on one of the metropolis' highways, buildings just dozens of meters away are hard to make out through the early morning smog.
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In a separate notice also issued on Tuesday, the ministry said air quality in the country's smog-hit northern regions worsened in October.
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On Wednesday, China issued a yellow alert for smog in its northern regions -- its second highest pollution warning and the first this year.
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Emissions from automobiles, especially from diesel-burning trucks, are one of the main contributors to the choking smog that plagues many Chinese cities.
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Steel producers say supply in China remains excessive despite production curbs imposed by Beijing to battle smog, suggesting prices could remain under pressure.
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It's just 30 seconds long, packed with images of Cadillacs, graffiti, the subway, and summer smog — oh, and a new song from Nas.
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They have pegged in a deficit of 200,000 tonnes for 2018, mostly due to a crackdown in top producer China to reduce smog.
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He was warning that after three decades of heavy industrialization, China was "unstable" and "unbalanced," with too many factories belching too much smog.
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One of the new appointees claimed that reducing smog will not benefit public health; another said soot is not linked to lung health.
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FuelCell Energy's products can also strip 70 percent of the smog-producing oxides of nitrogen from the exhaust of coal-burning power plants.
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Smog on Sunday caused hundreds of flights to be cancelled and highways to shut, disrupting the first day of the New Year holiday.
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And one of the biggest health and safety concerns is the sulfur dioxide in the "vog," or volcanic smog, coming from the vents.
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The smog-choked skies and dusty hues are almost tangible, matching and surpassing the acid rain-slicked streets of director Ridley Scott's incarnation.
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Residents are going to work in masks, while monuments like the India Gate war memorial and India's presidential palace remain engulfed in smog.
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By cutting air pollution that creates smog and triggers asthma attacks, wind energy created $8 billion in public health benefits in 2017 alone.
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She contends that one can't know for certain whether a death during, for instance, a smog event was directly caused by air pollution.
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In cities that have large biking populations, residents see improved health and extended life as a result of less smog, reports The Guardian.
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Mark Zuckerberg spent years schmoozing Chinese officials -- handing out copies of President Xi Jinping's book, running in the Beijing smog -- to no avail.
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There were claims the cars had "clean diesel" technology when the cars were, in fact, equipped with a mechanism that falsified smog outputs.
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Environmental issues, Mr. Birol said, are very important to emerging economies like India and China, whose cities are often plagued by choking smog.
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In 1943, 30 years before this photo was taken, the smog was so bad, the city's residents thought it was a gas attack.
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Even with these concentrated efforts, dangerous levels of smog are expected to continue hovering around the Thai capital for the next few days.
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Greenpeace said on Monday that acrid smog had wafted across Siberia as far as the Ural mountains, posing a threat to people's health.
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The ban over the year-round sales of the fuel had been imposed over concerns that E15 contributes to smog in hot weather.
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It is also a significant source of the soot and smog-causing pollution that causes asthma attacks and other heart and lung diseases.
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The step marks the Chinese firm's further inroads into the Latin American country where a green car revolution is underway to battle smog.
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November 5, 2019 Officials in India's capital are aware of what's causing near-record levels of smog, but they're struggling to find solutions.
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New Delhi's smog typically worsens at this time of year as residents set off firecrackers to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
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As part of Beijing's anti-pollution campaign, new coal-fired power utilities have been banned in the smog-prone east of the country.
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As abruptly as they'd risen, the mountains emptied us into a valley that had been presaged by an increasingly thick mantle of smog.
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Guidance introduced in 260 on other smog-forming chemicals indirectly limited methane emission, too, at least from new sources of oil and gas.
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Some studies have concluded that the toxic smog in New Delhi is the equivalent of smoking as many as 45 cigarettes a day.
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Three years ago, I was an amateur in the world of smog, but now I am an expert, a bold statement, I know.
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Typically U.S. fuel dealers are required to stop selling winter-grade gasoline on May 1 as summer anti-smog standards come into play.
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Typically U.S. fuel dealers are required to stop selling winter-grade gasoline on May 1 as summer anti-smog standards come into play.
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He soon tracked down the culprit: the largely invisible exhaust from motor vehicles or factories was reacting with sunlight, forming ozone, or smog.
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At the time there were also bush fires, so while the helmet protected her from ash, it didn't stop smog from seeping in.
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In 1958, the city even set up a smog relief team to provide residents with "fresh air" brought from outside of Los Angeles.
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According to the American Lung Association, seven of the country's 10 metropolitan areas with the worst ozone or smog pollution are in California.
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China ordered 28 northern cities to cut steel output by up to half from mid-November as part of efforts to fight smog.
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He touted Chinese science fiction books to his Facebook followers and posted a photo of himself jogging through a smog-filled Tiananmen Square.
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In tests exposed last year by a watchdog group, animals at an EPA lab were being made to eat lard and breathe smog.
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When we arrived in Canberra, the air was hot and thick with smog, as winds brought smoke from distant fires into the city.
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China has struggled to reduce its renowned smog over fears that tackling pollution could reduce economic activity and raise the number of unemployed.
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Automaker Volkswagen and two of its affiliates have agreed to pay West Virginia $2628 million for failing to adhere to U.S. smog standards.
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Smog typically builds up during that time as coal-fired boilers heat homes and offices, adding to air pollution from factories and mills.
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The announcement comes amid the release of new research suggesting that cutting coal emissions is not necessarily the only way of reducing smog.
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This is particularly important in California, where topography and climate make Los Angeles vulnerable to some of the worst smog in the country.
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This has served to lift utilisation rates across the official sector, leaving little room for increased production outside of the smog-zone regions.
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Season 2 upended that optimism by transporting the series from Louisiana to Los Angeles, a place where the stars are smothered by smog.
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Forest species are being pushed to the brink of extinction, and fires have created a blanket of smog that's smashing air pollution records.
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The Clean Air Act mandates that the EPA works to make sure smog from certain states doesn't jeopardize air quality in downwind states.
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Blue-glassed shine walls in the invisible wealthy, while eddies in the heat-dazzled smog block their view from a 90th-floor penthouse.
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Illinois is commonly described as a "donut hole" in the Midwest, where abortion care can be delivered without the smog of onerous restrictions.
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Beijing's air quality is among the worst in the world, and much of the smog comes from industrial pollution and the burning of coal.
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Climate pollutants lead to more smog in polluted areas, expanded ranges of tropical diseases, more intense storms and sea-level rise, among other damages.
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He wields a hive frame "scanner" to pick up electromagnetic smog and sticks electrodes in his homegrown honey to reap its rich, viscous sound.
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But hopefully, AREE will get to Venus, eventually—there's something heartwarming about a steampunk machine frolicking around the smog of an alien atmosphere.[NASA]
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That underscores the challenge for China as it aims to wean the nation off its favorite fuel as part of its war on smog.
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But, some operations have been suspended due to the smog, which has also meant that Chinese factories producing industrial materials have also curbed production.
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Extensive networks of public buses and trains would quickly whisk commuters to their destinations, and streets would be largely clear of congestion and smog.
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In 2015, the cloud of smog from the fires was so intense in one Indonesian province that the government declared a state of emergency.
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This has shifted the winter monsoon that wipes out the smog in the East China Plains, allowing pollution to build up in the air.
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"The goal is to change the current status quo of polluted cities, smog and ineffective, inconvenient and overpriced transportation modes together!" says the company.
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China has been pushing to clean up its inefficient manufacturing sectors for years as part of its war on smog and supply-side reform.
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A local entrepreneur, Anna Rys, wants to do her part to shut down the smog by bringing tech to bear on the environmental problem.
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His photos earned him a wide social media following as he gazed down on everything from smog-choked cities to spiraling hurricanes and typhoons.
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Vertical gardens not only beautify a city and improve biodiversity but also check pollution, reduce smog, act as sound barriers and improve foot traffic.
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As the smog thickened dangerously again this month, Delhi's own government banned lorries from entering the city and ordered a halt to construction projects.
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The surrounding vista entranced him nearly as much as the pyramids did: "Under a veil of smog lay the city of Giza," Curtis wrote.
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Warsaw, Poland, will restrict car traffic and coal heating in private residences to address intense smog in the city, according to The Associated Press.
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WITH ITS four-tiered smog warnings and lethal dumps of toxic waste, China has become Exhibit A for the environmental costs of economic development.
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