Sentences with phrase «choking smog»

The city climate - change sirens have been wailing for some time - from hurricane - blasted New Orleans, to January's flash floods in Rio de Janeiro, to Moscow's choking smog last summer - but city leaders aren't listening.

While Beijing's air quality has generated more headlines worldwide, scientists say New Delhi's air is often significantly worse, especially during the winter, when choking smog often settles over the sprawling city.

Malaysia has declared a state of emergency in the country's south after choking smog from slash - and - burn agriculture in neighboring Indonesia enveloped the region.

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.

China will launch two new pilot carbon trading schemes this week in Beijing and Shanghai as it strives to cut soaring rates of greenhouse gas, reduce choking smog and determine the best system for a nationwide roll - out.

Choking smog all but shut down one of northeastern China's largest cities on Monday, forcing schools to suspended classes, snarling traffic and closing the airport, in the country's first major air pollution crisis of the winter.

SHANGHAI (Reuters)- A choking smog across much of northern China threatens not just the health of local residents, but also of major coal projects globally that are still on the drawing board.

A choking smog across much of northern China threatens not just the health of local residents, but also of major coal projects globally that are still on the drawing board.

As a result the air gets worse, whether you're talking about choking smog, insidious soot or, yes, climate change.

And while ozone high in the atmosphere helps shield Earth from the sun's ultraviolet radiation, at ground level, it mixes with fine particulates to form breath - choking smog.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sounded the alarm about the deep cuts at a canal - side press conference last week, saying the slashed funding would send New York «back to the bad old days of choking smog and rampant pollution.»

GOWANUS — President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts would undo decades of progress toward cleaning the toxin - riddled Gowanus Canal and send New York back to the «bad old days of choking smog and rampant pollution,» state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Tuesday.

In fact, everywhere in Havana, even on the famed Malecón strip, which abuts the Atlantic, the choking smog makes New York's West Side highway seem like a wildflower preserve.

Beijing has promised to implement «extraordinary» measures this year in a bid to tackle choking smog from traffic congestion and the heavy use of coal.

These can build up into dense choking smogs, like the one that smothered Beijing in January.

In a heat - wave, the concrete - and - asphalt fabric of cities absorbs more heat, and so turns up the dial for its inhabitants; and the high concentrations vehicles and smokestacks can then worsen the trapped air pollution, producing choking smogs.

In 1920, when coal provided three quarters of global energy, and choking smogs shrouded London and Pittsburgh?

Not exact matches

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 business case for clean energy goes beyond economic competitiveness: In countries such as China and India, delivering more power without adding to the smog that already chokes big cities is paramount.

The air was choked with smog from an endless stream of cars, buses, and burning garbage.

The problem is that waste from bovines and other livestock produces ammonia, a compound that contributes to the smog that chokes southern California.

U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists grew weeds in three sites: an organic farm in western Maryland, a park in a suburb of Baltimore, and in downtown Baltimore, which is choked with smog and about 3 to 4 degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside because of the urban heat island effect.

At times, toxic smog literally chokes the city.

But the remarkably still air on Mount Wilson — the same climatic condition that keeps LA choked in smog — promises some of the world's sharpest images of the Sun, nearby bright stars, and any planets found orbiting them.

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.

Plugging them in to clean electricity supplies would prevent that — and would considerably reduce the local smog and soot that choke some port cities.

The smog from the graphite mines alone, used to make the rechargeable batteries, would choke the planet.

It was a step up over the wheezy L48 engine's 175hp to a smog - choked 220hp.

At the same time, as well, other fundamental forces will continue to drive polluted China and smog - choked India to move away from unfettered coal combustion as a path to progress.

China's biggest cities are choking on smog and air pollution emitted by nearby coal plants, and residents are fed up....

«Jim Hoggan, a public relations expert and co-founder of DeSmogBlog.com, explained the problem this way: «The public debate about climate change is choked with a smog of misinformation.

Choked with smog that shut down roads, schools, and its main airport, the city of Harbin (map) this week offered a striking reminder that China has a long way to go in addressing the hazards caused by its dependence on coal.

Plugging them in to clean electricity supplies would prevent that — and would considerably reduce the local smog and soot that choke some port cities.

The government of Beijing seems to have finally caught up on its economics 101 reading list, because it has decided to create a pollution tax to be applied to gasoline to fight the truly horrendous smog that has been choking up the city for years.

Lush green dense forests have been reduced to minimal, cascading flowing rivers have been choked with wastes and pollution, thick smog covers the overhead skies of growing cities, World is at a brink of an ecological disaster.