Yet for now, Poles are in for another smoggy winter.
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The smoggy reality has led the authorities to clamp down.
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The chemical reactions create soot-like particles, forming a smoggy haze.
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Dharmendra rarely steps out into New Delhi's thick, smoggy air anymore.
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This combination photo shows Shenyang's skyline on a smoggy day vs.
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But residents in smoggy places are snapping up the stuff anyway.
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Security was tight on a rainy, smoggy day in the capital.
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After seven years of living in smoggy Beijing, I'm used to it.
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Boeri's Vertical Forests reimagine buildings as enormous air purifiers for smoggy cities.
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How were Disney's nightly fireworks shows going to work in smoggy Shanghai?
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Health benefits are harder to quantify, especially in smoggy cities like Beijing.
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He went jogging in smoggy Beijing, much to the amusement of locals.
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Smoggy air, and the particulates in it, can also lead to cancer.
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Djokovic said the smoggy conditions had made him concerned for players' safety.
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If such ratios also apply on a smoggy day in LA, watch out.
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Yet without firm action in Warsaw, Poles are in for more smoggy winters.
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A woman walks across the street during a particularly smoggy day in Changchun.
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But the ozone machine that simulates smoggy air in Brazil may not be.
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In "Fish Inc," you can see the smoggy, industrial future as Merrie imagines it.
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Natural gas could provide a bridge between a smoggy past and a clean future.
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The time where the smoggy summers take on a full breeze and essentially becomes fall.
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Like much of fire-ravaged Northern California, my hometown is engulfed in a smoggy haze.
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Continuing into the 1960s, parts of Los Angeles were getting 200 smoggy days each year.
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However, it's becoming so overcrowded and smoggy that Thailand is considering moving its capital elsewhere.
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But it gets complicated if you're the CEO of Facebook taking a jog through smoggy Beijing.
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Confronted with a smoggy city, I'd choose a catalytic converter over a pocket copy of Walden.
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Bangladeshi cricketers spent more than two hours at the nets under the smoggy skies on Thursday.
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"London is somewhat unfairly considered a smoggy, dark city," CEBR managing economist Nina Skero told Reuters.
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Mile after mile of two-, three- and four-story apartment buildings stretch to the smoggy horizon.
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Before the index was public, even on smoggy days, my child ran around outdoors at school.
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During smoggy days, my mood is ruined and that I don't want to go out or work.
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Some particularly smoggy cities and provinces are also implementing ad hoc measures to beat bouts of pollution.
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China soon began the reforms that have turned Beijing into a smoggy, traffic-clogged but dynamic metropolis.
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People who breathe in smoke or smoggy air may experience symptoms of asthma and generally difficulty breathing.
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Here in VICE's Mexico office, the fondas of our fair, smoggy city remain always close to our hearts.
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The smoggy conditions are visible from space, covering the northern part of the country in a milky haze.
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Specifically, the "Smoggy Skies Act" would delay implementation of the 2628 ozone standards for at least eight years.
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This autumn, faced with public pressure to clean smoggy skies, the government decided to pick up the pace.
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New Delhi - It's a grey sunset on a hot and humid evening in the smoggy outskirts of India's capital.
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Dubbed the "Smoggy Skies Act" by its detractors, bill H.R 806 passed in the House of Representatives in July.
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Media reports in central China's Henan province also carried images of students taking exams in the smoggy open air.
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While LA doesn't look as bad as it did before the Clean Air Act, it still gets smoggy days.
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When CNN visited in 2015, residents said they often couldn't see neighboring buildings because the air was so smoggy.
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"It was a little smoggy out and low-lying clouds and the sky just absolutely lit up," he said.
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It's hard to get a handle on the ugly, smoggy implications of this nation's dependence on fossil fuel-burning cars.
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Social media posts started flooding in with people complaining about the smell and smoggy views over the typically clear city.
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The water in Redland will be full of industrial run-off and the cities will sit under a smoggy haze.
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Here in Jincheng, a smoggy city in China's coal country, the about-face has led to a steady hum of activity.
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Unlike in other notoriously smoggy cities such as Beijing, air pollution has yet to become a politically sensitive issue in Delhi.
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Smoggy success Since 2008, China's government has expended a huge amount of energy and money in addressing the country's air quality problems.
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On his first day in smoggy Delhi, Charles, 70, visited the India Meteorological Department and the Delhi War cemetery, among other sites.
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A Canadian firm sells containers of Rocky Mountain breeze as an antidote to smoggy skies ("a shot of nature," its marketing promises).
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Why, he wondered, would China sacrifice trade with the United States to produce low-quality metal that pollutes its already smoggy air?
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Red emergency signs on Beijing's main roads alerted drivers to the smoggy conditions, and workers wore protective masks for their journeys home.
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This essay coincided with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's visit to China, when he ran through Beijing's smoggy streets without a face mask.
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For many Chinese citizens, industrial toxins that have soaked into the water and soil are equal, if not greater, worries than smoggy skies.
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Even as apocalyptic images of smoggy Indian cities have spread on social media, officials have studiously avoided calling the pollution a health emergency.
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Northern China is bracing for a smoggy Christmas weekend, with the air quality forecast to deteriorate again on Saturday before improving on Monday.
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A police officer wears a mask to protect herself from air pollution on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 4.
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She renders overwhelming sorrow with precise brush strokes and eerie constellations of details: a cellphone photo, a Snickers bar, the smoggy Mongolian sky.
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With two smoggy months still to go, average annual concentrations of PM 2.5 shot up nearly 50 percent in the last three years.
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One place to hear such dreams, on a recent smoggy Saturday morning, is an English-language debating tournament in the central city of Wuhan.
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For middle school student Han Dong-jae, eating greasy barbecued pork belly on a smoggy day is a life lesson imbibed from his mother.
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Output will also be constrained over China's winter after Beijing mandated a slew of curbs to industry as it looks to clear smoggy skies.
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Surrounded by dramatic peaks, this sprawling, smoggy metropolis was hardly Gignac's only option when his contract at Marseille expired in the summer of 2015.
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If someone asks you to picture where greenhouse gases come from, images of smoggy traffic jams or billowing smokestacks are likely to spring to mind.
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The dystopian smoggy backgrounds of Lylat Wars—aka Star Fox 64—worked like a kind of chiaroscuro, accentuating the brightness of the game's melodramatic explosions.
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BEIJING — Through the last four decades, China has achieved breathtaking economic growth at the cost of smoggy skies, fetid streams and lakes of dying fish.
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Using his characteristic brand of diplomacy — the Facebook status update — he posted a photo of himself running in Tiananmen Square on a dangerously smoggy day.
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Using his characteristic brand of diplomacy -- the Facebook status update -- he posted a photo of himself running in Tiananmen Square on a dangerously smoggy day.
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A light rain broke just as I pulled in, the January morning breeze erasing the smoggy haze across the ridge of skyscrapers forming downtown Los Angeles.
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Stefano Boeri's firm, which recently completed two verdant towers in Milan, is planning to expand into other smoggy cities, including China's Shijiazhuang, Guizhou, Shanghai, and Chongqing.
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It is abetted by its host's unhealthy habits, but also the host's smoggy environment: I long to be king, With my fellows swimming in every vessel.
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Given ubiquitous smoggy photos of Beijing and environs, it's probably no shock to anyone that China has long had the most deaths attributed to air pollution.
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SOAs are a major component of fine particulate matter, the tiny particles in the air that reduce visibility and cause a smoggy haze when levels are high.
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From Waiyaki Way highway, a smoggy blanket is visible hanging over downtown Nairobi's tall buildings, and pockets of trees along the road are covered with traffic soot.
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Maybe the greatest single beat in the video arrives with a pivotal blowback, as a smoggy plume is passed from the mouth of one friend to another's.
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The glamorous skyline of Shanghai at night is contrasted with daytime images of its smoggy harbor, crowded with ships carrying coal to fuel China's insatiable energy appetite.
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Every noise, every inhale of smoggy air, every medical bill—everything that would normally be another drop in the bucket now meant hours of pain and frustration.
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China, the world's biggest consumer of the steelmaking ingredient, needs higher-quality, less polluting grades of iron ore as it battles to clear its notoriously smoggy skies.
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If you don't pay what the street is worth, the street is going to be bad, for everyone: potholed, packed with traffic, smoggy, poorly monitored by law enforcement.
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The study found that similar chemistry is responsible for smoggy skies in Beijing and X'ian, although in these cities, agricultural chemicals like ammonia can play a role, too.
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Imagine the city of the future and you'll almost definitely think of a Jetson-style landscape of towers and flying cars, or the smoggy urban dystopia of Bladerunner.
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In October 22015, a few months after Lladrovci was released from prison, I went to Obilic, a smoggy town of 220,29 people downwind of a hulking coal plant.
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When Voyager went by it in 1980, it was just a promising smoggy ball, the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere even thicker than Earth's.
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He digs out the song's rhythmic center, swirling singer Sadie Walker's voice amidst a smoggy haze of synth strings, occasionally dipping through the fog to offer acidic techno destruction.
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But it turns out that LA is not in fact a giant smoggy parking lot, though the car culture is the one thing that hasn't gelled with me yet.
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The screens and the fluorescent lights do little to brighten the room on a November day where the pollution levels have blocked the sun with a dense smoggy haze.
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Environmentalists blasted the plan, saying it would return America back to 1977 when smoggy skies and polluted rivers pushed lawmakers to strengthen federal clean air and clean water laws.
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We all could use an Rx for a healthier commute, a path to work or school that features public transit or bike lanes rather than a smoggy, congested highway.
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This bill has been more appropriately dubbed the "Smoggy Skies Act" by the health and medical community because it would result in more pollution, and more people getting sick.
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The city has been fighting to clean its notoriously smoggy air through steps such as pushing households and factories to switch away from coal to cleaner fuels like natural gas.
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That as soon as there was a party, there was an after-party, and as soon as there was an after-party, there was a smoggy, grotty, unending crack on.
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Then, in 1980, Voyager 1 swerved by the moon on the way out of the solar system and radioed back evidence of a smoggy atmosphere four times denser than Earth's.
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India&aposs Supreme Court banned the sale of firecrackers in New Delhi ahead of last month&aposs Hindu Diwali festival to try to curb air pollution in the notoriously smoggy city.
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To him, the British cities of the Industrial Revolution were a smoggy nest of narrow back alleys, where noisy factories and cramped terraced housing joined to form as singular gruesome locales.
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A dream of a movie, it follows a handful of Hollywood types living in smoggy, starry Los Angeles in 1969, the year the Manson family went on a frenzied murder spree.
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And she coughs while cycling to her office, on a road so toxic that for a brief period last month the air pollution there was greater than in infamously smoggy Beijing.
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China, the world's biggest consumer of the steelmaking ingredient, has ramped up buying of higher-quality, less polluting grades of iron ore as it battles to clear its notoriously smoggy skies.
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A generation ago it was a smoggy, sweltering sprawl of factories and workshops, a bit embarrassed by its history as a semi-colony of Western powers, who knew it as Canton.
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Even the dirtiest city in the U.S., Bakersfield, California — where oil refineries, agriculture, car emissions, and rail freight together create a smoggy horizon — still ranks way down the WHO's list, at 814th.
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Video: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory From October 29 to October 30, Cassini snapped an infrared picture of Titan's smoggy northern hemisphere, currently in its summer season, every 20 minutes for 11 hours.
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The fact remains that a company has created a website and video to promote a device designed to survive the destruction we've created in the form of deforested land and smoggy cities.
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In this city of 10 million known for smoggy skies and heavy industry, crowds of job hunters browsed information about positions at firms ranging from steel parts makers to environmental protection companies.
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Smoggy air will add to the misery: "Extended periods of sunny, hot, humid and calm weather are the perfect breeding ground for poor air quality conditions," according to AccuWeather meteorologist Faith Eherts.
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Read more: See how smoggy downtown Los Angeles was the day before Trump was expected to demolish California's attempts to tackle auto emissionsOn Thursday, a judge blocked a tax-return ballot law
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Voyager 1 plumbed a fat, smoggy atmosphere of Titan, where nitrogen and methane rains fall on a frozen slush pile of hydrocarbons and oily lakes, and then headed off toward interstellar space.
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" At one point, he mentioned how he didn't take to Los Angeles immediately ("it was very smoggy"), and how he still thinks San Francisco "is the most beautiful city in the world.
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The swift reduction in smoggy particulates emitted by the transportation sector, or contrails left by airplanes, will be especially useful because those changes are so much more dramatic and tangible to people.
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CHINA'S president, Xi Jinping, has a dream: that his country will experience a "great rejuvenation", that its smoggy skies will clear, and that Communist Party members will call each other "comrade" once more.
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But when The Undertaker's music hits in season-finale settings like Wrestlemania, Taker's smoggy, bone-chilling entrance is almost numbing while he slowly emerges to the tune of church organs and lightning cracks.
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The government's retreat is a blow to a years-long push to wean China from coal, its favorite fuel, to help clear the nation's smoggy skies, which have become a hot-button issue.
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In New Delhi, Trump was given a formal state welcome at the redstone presidential palace with a 21-cannon gun salute and a red coated honour guard on horseback on a smoggy day.
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Mr. Finney was propelled to early stardom by "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning," a low-budget 1960 film steeped in smoggy vistas of smokestacks and deprivation and shot in stark black and white.
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More than 20003 in 4 global deaths of children under 5 years old are due to polluted environments, including smoggy air, sullied water and poor sanitation, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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Long-term exposure to polluted air has been compared to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, and children who grow up in a smoggy environment can face serious developmental and other health problems.
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The ministry's weekend warning followed a month-long inspection that turned up severe violations, such as poor adherence to restrictions on smoggy days, said Liu Changgen, its head of inspections, according to the paper.
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As I navigated an unfamiliar, smoggy city, I was hired to work on a web series that was trying to be The Daily Show, but about pop culture and in five minutes or less.
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On Wednesday, Tangshan, the biggest steelmaking city in northern China, ordered steel mills, coke producers and utilities to cut output further for six weeks from July 20 until Aug 31 to clear its smoggy sky.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's smoggy capital will almost double the number of air monitoring stations to give a better idea about the true state of the city's air quality, Xinhua state news agency said on Monday.
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He was duly impressed, too—not by their immense size or majestic tombs, but by what he saw when he turned around: smoggy suburbs, a brilliant green golf course, and the trash of countless visitors.
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With a count of "respirable suspended particulate matter" that is roughly double that of China's notoriously smoggy capital, Beijing, Delhi is ranked by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the world's most polluted big city.
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But it was during her family's vacations in the spring and summer, often spent outside the city in Scotland, that Potter felt the least constrained, finding in those landscapes visions unseen in the smoggy capital.
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"You couldn't see the mountains around L.A. on smoggy days," said John R. Balmes, a physician, air pollution expert and a member of CARB's board, who has lived in the region for almost four decades.
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The Los Angeles basin was a seasonal wetland beset by tectonic forces, annually cleansed by hot wind and fire and overtopped by a smoggy inversion layer long before the Spaniards moved in on the Tongva.
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Congress' consideration of the Smoggy Skies Act is a direct attack on the Clean Air Act with dangerous implications for the health of Americans, particularly the most vulnerable, like infants, pregnant women and the elderly.
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In December, when temperatures can plummet to -40 degrees, its levels of air pollution were five times worse than historically smoggy Beijing, largely due to the number of coal-burning stoves its poorest residents rely on.
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China also uses spray cannons similar to the ones used for disinfection to combat smog: Industrial misters can spray water droplets that trap and pull dust and pollution particles out of the air in smoggy areas.
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In 2014, Xi shocked Beijing residents by visiting courtyard homes and chatting with passersby near a shopping street during one of the city's notorious smoggy days, drawing praise from social media users for his unusual public diplomacy.
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The idea may seem strange to most city dwellers, but given Beijing's notoriously smoggy air, it might be a lot more appealing to run in an air-purified box than on the streets for pennies at a time.
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"As a leading firm in the gasification program this year ... at one point we had 50,000 workers laying pipes in Hebei alone," said Liu, referring to the smoggy northern Chinese province that is the focal area for gasification.
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Residents in Shijiazhuang in Hebei province complained that schools there were open even though the city remained on red alert, and media reports in central China's Henan province carried images of students taking exams in the smoggy open air.
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But last night, before sneaking away with a huge road-victory in Salt Lake City against the Jazz, Chris Paul promised Paul Pierce that he'd rather drag him back to smoggy, traffic-clogged, fake-ass Los Angeles to end Pierce's career.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico City's first woman mayor plans to significantly improve air quality in the smoggy capital, one of the world's largest cities, by consulting with car manufacturers on a plan for stricter emissions standards, she said in an interview.
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NEW DELHI — Off a smoggy, six lane highway in India's capital, past a Catholic church and an elegant mosque painted white and green, is a low-slung, 1950s-style bungalow on a pink bougainvillea-lined lane where wild peacocks roam.
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The result, police and welfare advocates say, has been a surge in the number of distressed parents lugging children along Cucuta&aposs smoggy, congested streets as they try to sell root beer or candy to pay for a roof over their heads.
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The legislation was fiercely opposed by some environmentalists who say it's too timid for progressive California, especially those who work to clean up the notoriously smoggy air in parts of Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the agricultural Central Valley.
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The lighting is minimal, the floor lacquered in mud and beer, and the air is thick with the sort of rich, smoggy sweat that can only come from the contained anticipation and urgent dancing of teenagers about to see their favorite band.
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Mr. Katz gives "Gemini" the expected smoggy freeways and a blonde on a billboard, as well as the kind of mystery that certain Hollywood dreams are made of, complete with a femme fatale, a detective and a lonely horn on the soundtrack.
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The Australian Open is getting underway in Melbourne this week, and tennis players have some mixed feelings about running around (and breathing in) the thick, smoggy air wafting their way from the bushfires that have been raging through the country since September.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A horse in a white speedo swims to the end of a pool, while another horse in a red blazer looks on, the hills of Los Angeles unfurling in smoggy greens and blues in the background.
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In March 2016, he even shared a photo of a morning run through a smoggy Tiananmen Square on Facebook, drawing condemnation from critics who thought he was making light of China's censorship on the matter and providing internet users with plenty of memeable material.
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This will be the second year that China forces steel mills, aluminum smelters and other heavy industry in the smoggy northern regions to cut output during the winter, when emissions from the country's coal-fired power stations increase as they meet rising heating demand.
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The houses along the tree-lined blocks of Josina Avenue in Palo Alto, with their big back yards, swimming pools and driveways are about as far removed from the snarls of traffic, sputtering diesel engines, and smoggy air of South America's major metropolises as one can get.
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Air pollution linked to 3.2 million new diabetes cases in one year Poor hardest hit While the study adds to the already numerous health concerns regarding air pollution, it will be of particular concern to developing nations, whose smoggy cities could be hampering national economic development.
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The Smoggy Skies Act also attacks the Clean Air Act more broadly, undermining the law's ability to set standards based on what the current science tells us is needed to protect health, and weakening implementation and enforcement of air pollution standards for a number of harmful pollutants.
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But the bits of clarity that peek through lend depth and weight to her smoggy sound world, there is the promise of a bountiful, florid world outside—a distant garden maybe—where all the gloomy melodies and memories contained in her recordings would dissipate in the afternoon sun.
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As the state grapples with the fires and their immediate aftermath, experts warn that the smoky air could have severe health consequences, and that people will have to learn to deal with atmosphere made smoggy by fires, because these blazes will be increasingly common thanks to climate change.
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CreditCreditBilly H.C. Kwok for The New York Times GUANGZHOU, China — A decade ago, this city in southeastern China had a reputation as one of the country's grimmest, with smoggy skies, chronic traffic jams and streams so foul that they had to be paved over to contain the stench.
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It's not just the pretty stuff either; The video is especially great because it shows many different sides of China, from the natural beauty of the country to the smoggy life in the cities and all that's in between: sand dunes, solar panels, rice terraces, ghost cities, shanty towns, and more.
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Her music really reminds me of growing up in North London; of smoking rollies in the gardens of kids with parents much richer than mine, of walking around at night beneath a sky the color of smoggy burnt orange, of the subtle celebration of difference that pervades everything people do.
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The famously smoggy skies in Beijing were uncharacteristically clear for the occasion, while Beijing was under virtual lockdown — the Forbidden City had been shut to tourists since late on Tuesday to prepare for Trump's visit, many roads were closed, and Beijing was blanketed with a heavy police and military presence.
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But now it is about to take on a much bigger challenge: China's Ministry of Environmental Protection recently commissioned Mr. Roosegaarde to temporarily install the tower at a public location in Beijing in September to see how well it performs in the catastrophically smoggy air that is choking China's largest cities.
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Read more: Trump's plan to revoke California's power to set its own automotive-emissions standards isn't about cars or California — it's about ObamaSee how smoggy downtown LA was the day before Trump is expected to demolish California's attempts to tackle auto emissionsNo truce: Trump keeps up feud with California during visit
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The greatest generation rebuilt the world economy from the ashes of World War II. But this explosive growth came at extreme cost: fertile bottomlands buried in strip malls and suburban sprawl, accelerated deforestation, extinctions of native species, smoggy air and poisoned waters, and not least putting carbon combustion on overdrive.
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The environment sucks so bad, we have to find a new planet No one explicitly explains how terrible the climate has become in Blade Runner, but we get the picture: Its Los Angeles is way overpopulated, streets are filled with trash, and the smoggy pollution is thick enough to keep the city in perpetual darkness.
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And while the film depicts a diverse cross-section of Chinese life — from horses grazing in the countryside to a man in a respiratory mask in a smoggy cityscape; from Muslims in prayer to a dimly lit celebration — its primary interest lies in the tension between candid moments and shots that appear artfully composed.
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You can buy drugs everywhere if you're so inclined, you'll never run out of people to meet because there are a lot of them—they're literally everywhere—and even if you're skint you will find something to do because it's such a huge place and you can just walk around and breathe in the smoggy air and enjoy being alive.
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On a bright and oppressively hot morning in Manila, RJ Nieto recounted a string of conspiracy theories over a meal of beef tapa and rice in OK Café in Pasig, a smoggy city on the eastern border of Metro Manila: A Filipino photojournalist livestreamed military activities during a conflict in the southern Philippines and put soldiers at risk, he told me (not true); the former administration was in such a "rush to plunder public funds" that it botched a nationwide vaccine program and endangered young lives (unproven); all media outlets are irreparably biased by their owners (antithetical to the fundamental principles of journalism).
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