Sentences with phrase «smog over»

Overnight, the smog over the city disperses but returns over the course of the day (typically by 11 am) only to dissipate again as the city slows down for the night.

The effects are evident in smog over major cities like Beijing and Shanghai.

Your first paragraph seems to indicate that there are those who would actually choose smog over clean air.

One redeeming article was about the Richmond, Virginia plant that put in extensive pollution controls and cleared the air that had been causing a smog over Richmond.

Some think that the smog over India and China has far reaching affects.

Today, the cloud is the size of Africa and in springtime resembles the smog over Los Angeles.

This reddish - gray tinge that appears in the sky during the Arctic spring contains sulfates and resembles the smog over the world's largest cities.

Not exact matches

Ask a Canadian what's going on over in China these days, there's a good chance they'll cite the country's off - the - charts smog.

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.

The problem hit the headlines earlier this year when the so - called «Saharan smog» settled over London for the best part of a week.

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.

In October 2010, as heavy smog hung over Beijing, the U.S. embassy's Twitter feed said its rooftop pollution sensor had detected «crazy bad» levels of hazardous microparticles.

IT MAY look white and fluffy, but the mountainous cloud is a bad smog hanging over Los Angeles.

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.

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.

An influx of pollution from Asia in the western United States and more frequent heat waves in the eastern U.S. are responsible for the persistence of smog in these regions over the past quarter century despite laws curtailing the emission of smog - forming chemicals from tailpipes and factories.

Despite a 50 percent cut in smog - forming chemicals such as nitrogen oxides, commonly known as «NOx,» over the past 25 years, ozone levels measured in rural areas of the west have actually climbed.

Human pollutants — not natural nutrients — are what first set scientists looking at the chemistry of fog, following fatal smog clouds that settled over Donora, Pennsylvania, in 1948 and over London in 1952.

As of July 25, the air across Southern California exceeded federal smog standards 81 times, an uptick over the two years prior according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

Smog hanging over cities is the most familiar and obvious form of air pollution.

Let K go through the AI equivalent of «finding himself,» like a monied 20 - something in a Sofia Coppola movie; in the meantime, I'll be over here, smog - surfing and chilling with the giant digitized ballerinas.

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

Without the smog pump, the cat (s) will clog over time.

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

And through the concrete madness of honking horns and beep - beep - beeps, the shuttlecock, the raggedy dog, the yellow - scarved soldiers in green, the docking ships of night and the smog of modernity; silently cruised the noble old cyclo drivers in shorts and rag shirts, bobbing on forever over their chariots — these three - wheeled rickshaws with a large passenger seat at the front, like a bicycle attached to a wheelchair — visions of serenity and melancholy calm.

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.

Smog hanging over cities is the most familiar and obvious form of air pollution.

In his video «Smog,» Paul Shortt tours a fast - redeveloping capital while wearing a cloth mask over his face.

This, of course, is both a big environmental problem (the escaping gas contributes to local smog) and a financial opportunity, particularly given that methane, besides having 25 times the climate impact of carbon dioxide when the gases are compared over a 100 - year period, is a fuel and chemical feedstock.

If the testing results continue to bear out over time, the Academy group behind the smog tower hopes to build a much bigger version measuring 500 meters tall and 200 meters wide, with the greenhouses feeding it covering some 30 square kilometers.

The California fire images on the «Smog Blog» from UMBC / NASA this week showed your concept in action as dense smoke & dust plumed out over the Pacific:

It's a common misconception that the Great Wall of China can be seen from space, but there is another manmade object close by that is visible from 438 miles up — a soupy mass of smog hovering over Beijing so thickly opaque that it can actually obscure a large swath of the city from sight.

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.

Harris writes that international attention is prodding Indian and Delhi officials to try to gain some control over the smog crisis but, more and more, the pressure is coming from the city's coughing citizens.

I've never owned or driven a car or had a driver's license.I thought back at the time that would, over my lifetime, make some real contribution to how bad the smog was getting.

Re # 36 about sulfuric acid, smog doesn't seem to disperse much out over the ocean.

NO2 is the pollutant that causes smog and contributes to over 7 million deaths a year, according to the World Health Organization.

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.

Over a four - day period, the combination of fog and coal pollution created a smog so thick, travel became virtually impossible.

Smog, which is typically the result of a mixture of smoke and sulfur dioxide, continues to plague Beijing, New Delhi, Hanoi and other cities all over the world.

With all that renewable energy comes over 100,000 jobs, and a huge reduction in carbon dioxide (27 million pounds of CO2 that is not emitted by power plants) and a reduction in smog producing nitrogen oxides and the health threatening fine particulate matter.

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Probably the first thing to recognize is that they worked Obama's over to reach the deal with him they did — * even though * they were already disposed to do it in response to internal pressures over the acute issues they have with coal - fired smog.

The Hill reports, «Republican lawmakers are planning an all - out assault on Obama's environmental agenda, including rules on mercury and other air toxics from power plants, limits on ground - level ozone that causes smog, mountaintop mining restrictions and the EPA's attempt to redefine its jurisdiction over streams and ponds.»

A random «Smog Check» inspection & repair «secret shopper» audit, ethanol cap and elimination of dual fuel CAFE credit can cut California car impact over 50 % in 2010.

Concern over smog vastly outweighs concern with the climate.

The battle over emissions and air quality is even more tense in China, where pollution and smog are provoking outrage among China's growing middle class.

It is the quintessential smog - laden, traffic - jammed, heat island, but a new initiative from Mayor Eric Garcetti aims to help cool the city by 1.67 °C over the next 20 years.

The pollution performance for other automakers has been less consistent, with Nissan taking over second place from Toyota due to reduced contributions to smog and global warming, Ford holding its position after making gains in MY01, and DaimlerChrysler moving out of last place for the first time in our rankings.

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.