Sentences with phrase «by smog»

The use of a standardized range would be objective in the sense that it would cover a range of potential price outcomes (both higher and lower than prevailing market prices) and provide a useful supplement to current reserves guidance provided by SMOG.

OH is like the flames of the fire of chemistry in the troposphere, and the intensity of this fire could be impacted by smog chemistry or by changes in methane emission.

In the video Moore describes how her doctor warned her about eating mercury - laced tuna when she was pregnant with her two children and other health risks, such as asthma attacks triggered by smog.

Fast growing cities, particularly in China, are affected by smog from coal - fired power stations.

The EPA said that the people most affected by smog are children, older adults, and those who suffer from asthma or spend a lot of time outdoors.

Once ubiquitous, this classic marque and indeed the perceived profusion of pushbikes on Beijing streets are now steadily dying out, to be replaced by smog - emitting cars on clogged highways and six - lane ring roads.

These tiny regurgitations cover the canvases in a pointillist haze inspired by the smog of Los Angeles.

He is currently dedicating most of his time to Nafas NGO, an environmental organisation growing out of the hopeless situation that a Tehrani is facing in a city drugged by smog and mugged by wealth.

Once ubiquitous, this classic marque and indeed the perceived profusion of pushbikes on Beijing streets are now steadily dying out, to be replaced by smog - emitting cars on clogged highways and six - lane ring roads.

Government medical reports in the following weeks, however, estimated that up until 8 December, 4,000 people had died as a direct result of the smog and 100,000 more were made ill by the smog's effects on the human respiratory tract.

But with its capital often choked by smog and its people angry about the environmental degradation that rapid development has wrought across the country, Beijing has become a strong proponent of efforts to halt global warming.

THE sheer number of particles in urban air pollution may be the critical factor that pushes up death rates from heart and lung problems when cities are hit by smog, according to Anthony Seaton, professor of environmental and occupational medicine at the University of Aberdeen.

Chinese authorities have told pilots who fly to Beijing they must be qualified to land their aircraft in the low visibility bought about by smog, state media said on Thursday, as the government tries to reduce flight delays due to pollution.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to meet a Sunday deadline to designate which areas in the United States were being plagued by smog pollution.

An effective group provides the fresh air of honesty and acceptance to awaken spirits dulled by the smog of manipulative relationships and the loneliness of a bureaucratic society.

Hundreds of miles away, the colors of the Grand Canyon — layers of red and gold rock millions of years in the making — are often obscured by smog from the cars of Phoenix, Vegas and even Los Angeles.

But with its capital often choked by smog and its people angry about the environmental degradation that rapid development has wrought across the country, Beijing has become a strong proponent of efforts to halt global warming.

Not exact matches

Air pollution rose by more than a quarter in parts of northern China in March, and the region has been hit by another bout of smog in the second half of April,...

«By charging the Smog Free Tower with a small positive current, an electrode will send positive ions into the air.

Unlike India's smog - filled cities, this Cameroonian city's air quality is compounded by extensive deforestation.

The company, based in Fullerton, California, retrofits large diesel - powered vehicles such as garbage trucks and off - road construction equipment with a system that cuts smog - causing emissions by as much as 90 percent.

Investigate a cap - and - trade system that will allow firms to generate credits by reducing smog - causing pollutants.

When ageless mountains are blocked by Walmarts and smog, we don't just lose breathtaking views.

We can begin to make our way toward wisdom by clearing out the data smog — by fasting from TV, computer, cell phone and pocket planner long enough to talk with a friend face - to - face, read a book or simply sit still and listen for the way of wisdom.

The smog generated by the debate over «religion and politics» obscured the fundamental anxiety that lay beneath all the sniping, posturing and manipulating: anxiety over patriarchal power's waning influence in our national life, whether as U.S. hegemony abroad, or as family «headship» and male entitlement in our domestic institutions.

In his latest lawsuit against the Trump administration, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is suing over a minimum one - year delay by the EPA in enacting tougher clean air standards pertaining to smog.

Erie County was assigned a «D» grade for smog pollution in the most recent State of the Air report issued by the American Lung Association.

State AG Eric Schneiderman, leading a coalition of 15 state attorneys general, today filed a lawsuit against the EPA and its administrator, Scott Pruitt, for failing to meet the Clean Air Act's statutory deadline for designating areas of the country impacted by unhealthy levels of ground - level ozone (commonly referred to as smog).

The sun's apparent path is defined by a ring around what appears to be a smog - shrouded Earth.

SMOG FOG By blocking sunlight and dirtying solar panels, air pollution — as in this image of Shanghai on October 12, 2015 — can hamper the production of solar energy.

The Study: «The Sequestration of Ethane on Titan in Smog Particles» by Donald M. Hunten, published in the journal Nature.

The Methods: Photochemical modeling by a Caltech team indicates that ethane, a hydrocarbon detected on Titan by both of the Voyager spacecraft and the European Infrared Space Observatory, is created when solar ultraviolet light breaks down methane, a minor component of Titan's nitrogen - rich atmosphere, into a stew of organic molecules that form a dense orange - brown smog.

LA's smog is caused by sunlight driving chemical reactions between oxygen, nitrogen compounds and hydrocarbons in the lower atmosphere.

A team of researchers headed by André Prévôt from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) succeeded in demonstrating how these fine particles develop in a so - called smog chamber.

Such technology could cut acid rain — causing sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent, smog - forming nitrogen oxides by 75 percent, and — ultimately — capture more than 80 percent of the CO2 normally produced by combustion, storing it in nearby depleted oil fields by 2015.

Not only did they banish smog and smoke, they also inadvertently cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 96,000 metric tons during the games.

Banned in Delhi for a decade, smog - spewing combustion engine — powered rickshaws are fading away in India and in many other countries, thanks not only to inroads by minivans, but also to improved rickshaw motor designs coupled with laws to mothball dirtier models.

The Obama administration plans to bring smog standards into line with its science advisors, overturning a controversial decision by the Bush administration

Lu developed «SMOG», short for Surface Meteorology and Ozone Generation, as part of a group led by Richard Turco, head of the atmospheric chemistry group at UCLA.

Its one means by which smog ozone damages the lung.

A speed limit of 14 mph, down from the current cruising speeds of 25 to 29 mph, would cut nitrogen oxides — a main ingredient of smog — by 55 percent and soot by almost 70 percent, according to the University of California, Riverside study.

By factoring out all known causes of the probe's motion (everything from its flight path around Mars to the movement of the crust on which the tracking station on Earth rests), engineers can isolate the perturbations caused by the cycling of Martian snow or smoBy factoring out all known causes of the probe's motion (everything from its flight path around Mars to the movement of the crust on which the tracking station on Earth rests), engineers can isolate the perturbations caused by the cycling of Martian snow or smoby the cycling of Martian snow or smog.

Using a computer model that fused air pollution and atmospheric chemistry data, they estimated what annual average levels of ozone (a key smog ingredient) and fine particulates smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) were in 2010 within 100 - km - by -100-km grid squares across the world.

The researchers have predicted that increasing smog would prevent as much as 263 billion metric tons of carbon from being taken out of the atmosphere by plants over the past and coming century, though this depends on how tropical plants respond to O3 pollution.

By some accounts, the smog in Baotou can be dense, the air acrid.

China's capital, Beijing, infamous for its thick smog and heavy traffic, will slash the city's new car sales quotas by almost 40 percent next year, as it looks to curb vehicle emissions and hazardous levels of pollution, the city government website said.

This strange saga began in 1990, when California's Air Resources Board, in an attempt to curb the state's smog, issued a mandate calling for 10 percent of California's vehicles to be emission - free by 2003.

This new finding could allow researchers to study pollution, smog, and haze in a comprehensive way, backed by data that accurately depicts a compound's behavior over time.

Other threats such as extreme weather, farms turned to desert and choking smog are all exacerbated by climate change that results from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air.

Sadly for southern Californians, Taha's city is not the real LA, where the smog is still legendary and summers get hotter year by year.