Sentences with phrase «which smog»

Climb the entrails of the same machine from which the Smog erupts and free those who are still enslaved.

Its one means by which smog ozone damages the lung.

The new research estimates the extent to which smog, under air - pollution policies in place before the Clean Power Plan, would limit production in 2020 of four major crops: corn, cotton, potatoes and soybeans.

And we now have a gloomier picture of the extent to which smogs and other human - made aerosols in the atmosphere shade us from the worst of global warming.

Not exact matches

This technology manages to capture ultra-fine smog particles which regular filter systems fail to do.»

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.

The move comes as car makers and investors are pumping in billions of dollars into the so - called new energy vehicle sector in China, the world's biggest auto market, which is preparing to roll out tough norms to promote the sector to fight urban smog and cut dependence on imported oil.

Disneyland is divided into several «lands,» all accessible through Main Street, which provides an avenue of transition from the reality of traffic jams, smog and vast car parks to the fantasies of clean, orderly and non-threatening Adventureland, Tomorrowland, and Frontierland.

Lay aside for the moment conventional pollution — the smog above Chinese cities — which may well subside as these cities become more prosperous.

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.

The Golden State is at the vanguard in the United States in reducing auto emissions of nitrogen oxide gases, which help produce toxic smog and acid rain.

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.

That said, it is true that older diesel cars do pollute more than gasoline cars, because they don't have DPFs, and diesel cars in general emit far more nitrogen oxides, which cause smog and acid rain, the study also noted.

Fuel from the polluted site released more nitrogen oxides, which contribute to the formation of smog and ozone.

In September 2015 it emerged that Volkswagen had fitted software to around 11 million of its diesel cars worldwide which caused them to release fewer smog - causing pollutants during tests than in real - world driving conditions.

U.S. laws increasingly target emissions of hydrocarbons (HC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), which make smog.

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 smog.

Pourhashem noted the key measurements needed are the rate of soil emission of nitric oxide (NO), which is a smog precursor, after biochar is applied to fields.

The study used images and other data from Cassini's radar instrument, which can peer through the obscuring smog of Titan's atmosphere to reveal the surface in detail.

Like vehicles and power plants, trees emit airborne chemicals called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which in the presence of sunlight react with nitrogen oxides in vehicle fumes to form ozone, one of the components in smog that makes it a health threat.

The researchers estimate that cutting those 14 together could avoid between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths (largely from smoky, unhealthy air) and increase crop yields by between 30 million and 135 million metric tons (due to concomitant reductions in ground - level ozone, otherwise known as smog, which forms from fugitive methane and blights crops in Brazil, China, India, the U.S. and elsewhere).

And sky glow is made worse by other forms of pollution such as dust and particles of smog, which scatter the light.

Clairton, a mill town, is «home to the [U.S. Steel] Clairton Coke Works, which is the largest coke - making facility in the nation,» said Rachel Filippini, executive director of the environmental organization Group Against Smog and Pollution.

The main threats to local air quality across the United States (as well as most everywhere else) remain smog and particulate pollution, which combined or acting alone trigger millions of hospital visits and health complications for citizens every year.

Modeling studies caution that warmer days will lead to higher concentrations of ground - level ozone and smog, which cause sickness and death from respiratory and cardiac disease (79).

The stagnant air caused by heat and humidity tends to trap airborne pollutants, such as car exhaust, which react in the presence of sunlight to form ozone, a main ingredient in smog.

Set in the late 70s, the film positively revels in an exaggerated version of the era — so much smog, so much hair — and the Los Angeles setting means that it gets to mimic all the detective fiction of which Black's always been such a fan.

Los Angeles is this film reminded me of China with its high rise buildings covered in a grey, overhead smog, which hints at the power corporations have in the future.

Fast describes it as «an elliptical thriller about a person whose past catches up with him when he's most vulnerable»... Shane Black has teamed up with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling for The Nice Guys, in which a pair of private eyes investigates the suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy «bizarrely rooted in smog and the U.S. auto industry.»

which depicts an enveloping smog, so evocative of Victorian London.

In 2014 during the so - called «Saharan» smog event, which resulted in a 14 per cent rise in calls related to breathing difficulties to the London Ambulance service, the school governors of a primary school located on London's North Circular decided to keep children inside as a precaution, particularly those with asthma.

A single diesel bus can produce 750 kg of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a precursor to smog, in a year, and 13 kg of particulate matter, which is a carcinogen linked to heart disease.

In most places which have emissions testing, not only is there a smog test (where they attach your car to a computer), there's also a visual test.

Arizona does have smog laws which would not permit you to remove your cats, unless you do something nefarious like get your PCM tuned where the CEL doesn't come on.

The trucks will be powered by a modified version of the «Hawk» 2.2 - liter in - line four - cylinder diesel, which will employ exhaust urea injection to help meet US smog requirements.

While the ill effects of smog were long commented upon, change was not enacted until the Clean Air Act of 1956, which among other measures, banned the emission of smoke from chimneys, trains and industrial furnaces.

AIR QUALITY — 2 Points — One point for parts per million of ozone and one point for levels of suspended fine particulate matter, both of which are major components of smog.

Their smog score is a 5 out of 10, which is right in line with the average new car.

Look at the following three images: smog, clear sky and snow, each taken from my room which was each year the same one.

Of the latter two, which are included in the exhibition, Smoke is a study for a much larger version that was shown in the atrium of the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, D.C., and eventually became part of a triology of large - scale public sculptures that included Smog (1969 - 70), and Smug (1973)-- three of the most profound and alluring works of public sculpture made in the history of twentieth century art.

In 1981 Denny moved to Los Angeles, where the urban environment and often smog - hazed natural light inspired him to develop a new aesthetic featuring large monochrome thick - layered acrylic surfaces on which concentrated clusters of coloured scratchings rest on thin horizontals.

The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.

(My guess is that these tendencies are one reason we need to approach climate change and the energy gap more in the way we treat Medicare insolvency than the traditional environmental problems we grew up with back in the 20th century — sewage in rivers, smog in air — which were literally in your face.)

One effort, which at the time was touted as being the world's largest air purifier, has yielded a 7 - meter tall Smog Free Tower in Rotterdam, but when your country boasts of some of the worst air quality around, you have to go bigger.

gavin: «They'd also be pretty happy at the concomitant reduction in air pollution, indoor smoke, bronchial disorders, polluted water and smog which contribute to premature deaths of hundreds of thousands of their fellows.

NOx, which are produced by combustion, such as in fossil fuel vehicles, is one of the key components of both smog and acid rain, and the billboards are said to «reverse the equivalent of 5,285 vehicles» worth of NOx emissions per month.

Using copper coils buried underground, the device would create an electrostatic field, which would attract smog particles down from the sky, similarly to how hair is attracted to a balloon.

According to the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the burning of coal is responsible for 70 percent of the emissions of soot that clouds out the sun in so much of China; 85 percent of sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain and smog; and 67 percent of nitrogen oxide, a precursor to harmful ground level ozone.

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

Unhealthy smog settles on areas which burn too much carbon - based fuel.