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Why scientists are amazed at oilsands smog levels
2016-05-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tyee: On any hot day Shell and Syncrude tour guides used to call the gasoline-like vapours that wafted from Fort McMurray's huge open-pit bitumen mines "the smell of money." But a new study in Nature has another name for the stench: air pollution and megacity volumes of it. In fact the tarsands, already the largest source of climate disrupting greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, have a new grim moniker: "one of the largest sources of anthropogenic secondary organic aerosols in North America." Researchers...
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VIDEO: Dealing with Mexico City's rising smog
2016-05-04 01:42:16| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The air quality in Mexico City dropped to its worst level in 14 years this March. The BBC looks at some of the solutions for dealing with air pollution.
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As Smog Continues to Worsen, New Delhi Bans a Million of Cars From the Road
2016-04-15 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: For the second time this year, a million New Delhi cars will be forced to stay off the road each day for the next two weeks in an effort to reduce the citys hazardous air pollution levels. The Indian capital was ranked the worlds most polluted urban center in 2014, with smog concentrations frequently reaching hazardous levels for children, the elderly, and people with heart or respiratory issues. The Delhi decision follows a similar recent driving ban in Mexico City, where heavy smog and high ozone...
Chinese smog helps Dyson's sales
2016-03-21 11:40:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Dyson's revenue rose by more than a quarter in 2015, propelled by China's demand for humidifiers and purifiers to combat smog.
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China's pollution problem gets hairy with 'nose-tache' to filter smog
2016-02-29 06:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For almost every Beijing resident it will be a familiar sight which quite literally gets up their nose. The smog which pervades the skies of the capital and many other large cities is sometime so all pervading that it can almost turn day into night and force children to be kept indoors. Now an environmental group, concerned that residents in Chinas cities are becoming blandly accustomed to pollution, have produced a video raising the issue in a quirky way. The video depicts a dystopia where...
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