Sentences with phrase «of smog»

Both ozone and PAN are major components of smog in Los Angeles, [researcher Ilana Pollack] said.

New research suggests that the waste from dairy farms may be a bigger source of smog in Los Angeles than the region's millions of cars.

The aforementioned scenario only applies if local emissions of smog - forming gases continue under current rates.

Huge areas of pine forests in the mountains east of Los Angeles are dead because of smog from Los Angeles.

(Reuters)-- Severe pollution in Beijing has made the Chinese capital «barely suitable» for living, according to an official Chinese report, as the world's second - largest economy tries to reduce often hazardous levels of smog caused by decades of rapid growth.

Delhi's environmental authorities say petcoke, cut into coal power station feeds around the capital, is now one of the major sources of smog in the city.

The county also exceeds the federal standard for ozone, the main ingredient of smog.

UHI can affect the climatic comfort of the urban population, potentially related to health, labour productivity and leisure activities; there are also economic effects, such as the additional cost of climate control within buildings, and environmental effects, such as the formation of smog in cities and the degradation of green spaces.

This combined with stagnant air conditions leave many cities covered in a dense layer of smog for days at a time.

When the entire world is suffering from the fiend of pollution, it is advisable to plant Tulsi (Holy Basil), Neem, Goose Berry (Amla), Banyan (Bargad) and Pipal trees etc., as these herbs and trees exhale oxygen for almost 24 hours and rectify the quality of air by absorbing the side effects of smog due to pollution.

Perhaps Roosegaarde will find that the design works too well and instead of being used to just clear the sky above public parks, it may become a method for removing large amounts of smog from around the tops of buildings, airports, tourist attractions or other areas where visibility is important.

In this fabricated world, strange clouds of smog float by; there are holes in the sky.

There'd be less air pollution; motor vehicles are one of the biggest causes of smog and toxic pollutants in the air we breath.

Removing a small, park - sized circle of smog from the sky above Beijing would be like taking a drop out of a bucket, but it would potentially rally opposition to pollution in general, when people are reminded of how bright and clear their city could look without being shrouded in a veil of toxic air.

Outright fraud has plagued emissions markets, whether it's Anne Sholtz building a Ponzi scheme out of smog allowances in Los Angeles or European cheats charging extra for carbon allowances under the guise of collecting a tax and then disappearing with the proceeds.

According to NEI's 2012 report, «In 2010, nuclear energy facilities prevented the emission of about 1.6 million short tons of sulfur dioxide and about 0.6 million short tons of smog - causing nitrogen oxide — pollutants controlled by the Clean Air Act.

(Courtesy NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute) Through the Haze The Cassini spacecraft has beamed back a new, more detailed image of smog - enshrouded Titan.

The 1.8 - liter four - cylinder, freed of its smog equipment, endures multiple stops and starts during our photo session and runs smoothly.

Styled like a TED - talk in front of an audience, Jing's video combines research, data visualization, investigative reporting and her own personal awakening to the issues of smog after she became a mother.

The anniversary of Smog Day rings out a grim warning: 18,000 people still die every day from air pollution, writes author Andrew Simms

Just try not to breathe in too much of the smog, okay?

A local government study showed in April that 31 percent of the smog in China's capital Beijing is derived from vehicles, 22.4 percent from coal burning and 18.1 percent from industry.

China already has more than 20 local trading platforms that allow industrial firms to buy and sell permits for pollutants like sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, major constituents of smog and acid rain.

But electrostatic charging could also occur between microscopic particles of smog in Titan's air, allowing the particles to glom together, grow and precipitate to its surface.

The level is beautifully drawn; you will witness the burning buildings, the nearby forest taking over the city and a lot of smog blinding you from a possible distraction.

If an elected official would request a copy of the Sierra Research SR 2007-04-01 report and all communication about the report from CCEEB, CED, CARB, DCA / BAR, IMRC, Parsons, SGS Testcom, ESP & Sierra Research it might help improve performance of Smog Check....

In 2030, a million solar roofs (or at least 3,000 MW of solar energy capacity) would help the state avoid 11.8 million pounds of smog - forming nitrogen oxide pollution from power plants annually — a reduction of 9 percent below 2012 power plant emission levels.

They point out the indirect costs of coal generated power plants, including the production of smog that causes asthma and other respiratory illnesses; carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming; and acid rain that destroys lakes and forests.

Research in the 1990s has shown, however, that another type of smog — photochemical — is now occurring in some urban areas as a result of fumes from car exhausts and the build up of other pollutants in the lower atmosphere which react with incoming solar radiation.

Researchers have now identified the pollutants responsible — exactly the same ones that are implicated in global warming and also cause a pall of smog over most of northern India every winter

Schneiderman said data shows 1 - in - 3 residents of New York is «breathing dangerous levels of smog pollution» and the EPA's lack of action threatens citizens» health and safety.

Over the years, «Soylent Green» has become more timely, where Heston is trapped in a treeless world of smog and environmental pollution.

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,...

In one memorable example, the «green police» stop a long line of smog - belching cars but wave a lone, righteous diesel from VW's Audi division through with a cheery, «You're good to go, sir.»

In southern California, everyone was aware of smog and hated it.

She is a retired elementary school teacher and new SAHM living the high life of smog, terrible traffic, and crazy hot summers in Southern California.

The contribution of smog to increased rates of asthma and premature deaths was already known.

He urged «an overall morphological attack on the problem of smog» in Los Angeles, including a tax on single - passenger cars.

With roughly 100 million motorcycles in Asia — roughly half of them using two - stroke engines — that translates into as much as 2.5 billion cars» worth of smog.

«Premier Li's statement will ignite hopes for people living under the threat of smog but it would be even more encouraging if the central government realized that there are a lot of regions outside the scope of the current air pollution action plan,» said Huang Wei, campaigner with Greenpeace in Beijing.

But this latest and prolonged spate of smog has both residents and foreigners pressuring the government for change.

The megacity is covered by a gray umbrella of smog.

A history of smog and choking traffic.

And if the coal plant lacks pollution controls — or fails to turn them on — it can amplify the extent of smog, acid rain, lung - damaging microscopic soot and other ills that arise from burning fossil fuels.

For instance, Elliot says, hints of a smog layer or a sudden temperature drop in the lower atmosphere, observed in 1988, have disappeared.

Another kind of smog, which usually looks brown, develops when pollutants from cars react with sunlight in the atmosphere on hot days.

Methane and ethane both increase levels of smog ozone near the ground.

«The wrong thing to do is to get alarmed... that every time you're in traffic or every time you're exposed to a little bit of smog, you are going to get a heart attack or die,» Brook says.