Sentences with phrase «pollution in haze»

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Because I do miss Singaporean company every once in a while, I'll admit that I love this side stint as an «ambassador», during which I get to speak easily in Singlish (Singapore's version of English), ask them about the local political news and latest haze pollution situation, etc..

In urban areas, that smoke mixes with existing pollution from cars and factories creating a thick, deadly haze.

Nordenskiöld's record of the haze was among the first evidence that air pollution around the northern hemisphere can travel toward the pole and degrade air quality in the Arctic.

Two researchers have found observations of an air - pollution — induced phenomenon called Arctic haze in the writings of explorers from that period.

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.

When the wind slows down, the concentration of small particles of air pollution (aerosols) increase, which help increase haze and leads to solar dimming in the area.

By SUE ARMSTRONG It is a crisp, sunny winter morning on the cliffs of the Magaliesberg mountains, some 50 kilometres from Johannesburg: a sulphurous haze of pollution hangs in the valley.

Qian pointed to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences report last year on haze, or «atmospheric brown clouds,» in South Asia that implicated air pollution in disrupting the water cycle.

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Beijing Fog / Smog - Juliet Macur has a report on our Rings blog noting how International Olympic Committee officials were bending over backward to avoid offending China despite the extraordinary soup of haze and pollution in Beijing on Thursday.

Smokestack pollution from NGS also adds to smog haze in 11 national parks and wilderness areas surrounding the plant, including the Grand Canyon, which is less than 20 miles away.

Haze is a serious air pollution problem in China, especially in Beijing and surrounding areas, affecting visibility, public health and regional climate.

Thanks to a series of comprehensive plans — named ProAire — over the last two decades, the city has curbed its signature smog haze and recorded impressive reductions in local air pollution as well as CO2 emissions.

The above image was captured by a NASA satellite last week and shows large parts of South East Asia (Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore) covered in a brown haze of soot and other air pollution derived from Indonesian forest fires, which has now also reached Thailand.

Severe haze in Beijing is more likely to develop in winter months — December, January, and February — because of high levels of polluting emissions and a lack of rain to wash pollution out of the atmosphere.

Air pollution indexes reached record - high levels in several cities, sparking a row between Indonesia, which had failed to ratify a transboundary haze agreement, and its neighbors, whose companies played a major role in the burning.

The Guardian reports: «Scientists say the pollution could surpass 1997 levels when the haze created an environmental disaster that cost an estimated US$ 9 billion in damage.

Because the widespread burning of rainforest land in Indonesia — in order to plant more palm oil plantations — is creating so much smoke and trans - boundary haze pollution that it's affecting neighboring nations, not to mention devastating its own country.

Screen and colleagues conclude: «A growing list of societally impactful phenomena across the Northern Hemisphere are being linked to diminished Arctic sea ice, arguably quite speculatively: from extreme pollution haze in China, to poor crop yields in the United States, to the unusual track of Hurricane Sandy, the second - costliest hurricane in U.S. history.