smog

In some parts of China the air is so heavily polluted they never see the sun, it is only a glow behind the smog.

The smog that has engulfed Moscow for a week eased a bit Tuesday, but the concentration of pollutants remained high.

Air quality improved: smog alerts in Los Angeles, which used to have more than 100 a year, have become rare.

The capital of the northern province of Shanxi is at the heart of the country's coal industry and has long suffered from unrelenting smog.

Wow, how much did those fireworks contribute to Beijing's smog!

The city continued to endure 90-degree temperatures, and weather forecasters said the smog could return as soon as the wind shifts.

Because these chemicals are changed by the sun high up in the air, Los Angeles smog is called photochemical smog.

Smog frequently builds up in eastern China during the winter when weather conditions trap pollutants over the plain.

Because of that smog, researchers have surmised that liquid methane should exist on the surface, but probes had failed to find any.

Her eyes start to be suffused with water smog, the whole body is numb and feeble to not go, blare, why her body ambition so acute?

Visibility in parts of Moscow was down to a few dozen meters due to the smog, which carried a strong burning smell and causes coughing.

In the air is lonely is spreading quietly, even if I change into the smog not to endure to be separated.

In parts of Sumatra, the neighbouring Indonesian island spewing out the smog, it had been getting hard to breathe.

Seltsovsky attributes this, in part, to the heat, fires and dangerous smog that were in the air of and on for the last eight weeks.

When the wind comes from the mountains, it blows the smog out over the ocean, and the air in Los Angeles is reasonable clear.

DiCaprio says he's been fascinated by nature ever since he was a child growing up in smog-choked Los Angeles.

The EPA has been cracking down on auto emissions in an attempt to curb the smog in major cities.

It was one of the worst days of smog in the city's history .

I should have know. I was used for amusement. Couldn't see through the smog . It was all an illusion.

There used to be very much smog in London .

"The entire time I was there, I didn't see the sun once; the skies were perpetually covered in smog, " he said.

I wanted to advise you not to smoke, but you are so beautiful in the smog that I can't speak it out.

Sees a Wen Run youngster, slowly since the green wood behind decease came out, but is smog shadow mountain pupil Yi breeze.

London, renowned for centuries for its infamous smog and severe pollution, today has the cleanest air that it has had since the Middle Ages.

From the top you could see perhaps four or five miles in every direction before the yellowish industrial smog swallowed up the horizon.

If China could emerge from the smog with a low-carbon economy, it would be a boon for the world.

Its chemistry is free of any volatile organic compounds (VOCs ), solvents that may react photochemically to form air pollution ( smog ) .

The region has been seriously polluted by harmed smog, which proves tobe the cause of many illnesses and for the climbing death rate.

The end result is an increased fuel efficiency of up to 70-80% as well as a cleaner engine and smog-free exhaust.

I had never seen the sky white with smog before, and my chest hurt from the pollution, making it difficult to breathe.

Two years into its ten-year construction plan, Yujiapu is still a field of cranes, fenced along the perimeter and hazy behind the smog.

But as the smog fell on their slum in the afternoon of the next day two more bodies were found.

Smog has become a frequent , visible problem, formed when air pollution from across the region mixes under the sun .

That talk of an all-L. A. Second-round series between the Clippers and Lakers will vanish like foothills in the smog if Phoenix wins.

Vehicle pollution is one of the main reasons for smog and haze in most large and medium-sized cities in the country.

The Clean Air Act of 1963 marked the beginning of federally funded air quality research programs to deal with increasing amounts of smog.

SCR reduces oxides of nitrogen, the smog precursor known as NOx, by injecting urea periodically into the exhaust system.

Pollution was also a barrier, with thick smog in Beijing blotting out the sky.

Even the weather paid heed. After several days of smog and occasional drizzle, the sky over Beijing turned a clear blue.

A curtain of smog often hangs over big cities. It irritates the eyes and chest.

Life would be sweet here, especially so for a girl fresh from the freeways and smog of Los Angeles.

A two-hour drive north of Beijing's oppressive smog and colorless high-rises, the town provides a surreal sense of escape.

And, unlike in 1997, Indonesia has been quick to acknowledge its responsibility for this year's smog, and to ask for help.

Cars and trucks and taxis came and went honking horns the taste of fuel and smog thick in the air.

The results show that this kind of carbon electrode has better properties. It's also a new way to reduce the smog.

In the winter of 1952, a milky white fog rolled into the city. It soon turned into black smog as the smoke of the city poured into the air.

Red areas are actually cooler metallic dust grains, while green sections are made of hotter, smog-like material.

When my family and I left China in 2004, we moved to Los Angeles, the smog capital of the United States.

Faced with some of the world's worst smog, China banned half of Beijing's cars from the city's center in advance of this summer's Olympics.

Diesel exhaust particles, a major part of urban smog, consist of a carbon core coated with organic chemicals and metals.

The air was filled with smog coming from hundreds of factories as well as the heavy traffic.

The transformation is so dramatic it is eerie. When I flew into Beijing yesterday, the city was shrouded in what looked like a thick smog.

"HAZE" is a weasel word for the eye-stinging, throat-rasping smog that periodically engulfs parts of South-East Asia.

Then last week, a thick blanket of smog descended on the city as fires, not far to the south and the east, burnt out of control.

The heat and smog from blazing forests and smouldering peat bogs has caused the premature deaths of thousands more.

Heavy smog covered the city Tuesday as talks began between the IOC's coordination commission and Beijing Olympic organizers.

Independent experts say a rise in mortality isn't exceptional for a city ill-prepared for such temperatures, even without the smog.

Flights were unaffected, but the smog shrouded landmarks like the Kremlin.

A blanket of smog continued to choke much of China.

Transportation vehicles produce most of the key chemicals that pollute the air, causing smog and health problems.

A woman wears a smog veil as she rides her bicycle in Beijing in 1984.

Many city kids, even if they did peer through the orange smog above their heads, would probably see only a handful of stars.

Besides, the system equipped the smog sensor and leakiness sensor of gas and guarded against fire and gas leakiness .

Pollution levels in London are even higher than last Easter, when the government was forced to issue a smog alert.

It's suffused with a thick smog that's a perpetual sulphur-yellow, and suffocated by motes of coal dust suspended in the breeze.

Moscow's health chief has confirmed the mortality rate has doubled as a heatwave and wildfire smog continue to grip the Russian capital .

it suggests that the solution of preventing photochemical smog from formation is to control pollutant sources.

And the point is with respect to smog, the efficient way to do it is to use the market.

Or it might be something driven by a long-term change, such as the build-up of greenhouse gases (or, conceivably, layers of sooty smog).

Catalytic converters on the cars and better filters on power-plant smoke-stacks have greatly reduced smog, smoke and soot in the air.

Los Angeles smog is called photochemical smog.

Experimental results show that the two proposed approaches are more effective on smog weakening than the other three.

Photochemical smog: Smog produced by action of solar radiation, especially of ultraviolet radiation, on exhausts from vehicles and industry.

One advantage is clean and filtered air. The city of Tokyo has one of the most serious smog problems in the world.

At its worst, the smog is reducing visibility to less than 200 meters and disrupting traffic, both on the ground and in the air.

First, smoking is harmful, and many dreadful substances are in tobacco smog. Those substances cause stimulus, cancer and poisonous effects.

The morning was a pleasant one, except for the smog that lay cupped, a thin, metallic soup, in the Los Angeles basin.

The consequences are numerous and profound: acid precipitation, photochemical "smog" and global warming, among others.

Today, due to the smog and pollution, bikes have been regaining their proper position.

During the past decades, the smog came from the local factories have polluted the air of the city.

Second, cooling a city by a few degrees dramatically reduces smog.

Carbon monoxide is also one of the chemicals that create ozone pollution and urban smog.

Many complained that the plant would further ruin a once pleasant seaside city already threatened by smog and polluted seawater.

BEIJING, China (AP) -- The Olympic flame is out, the smog is back, and traffic again clogs the roads.

Smoke from a bonfire of garbage mixes with the miasma of smog in the sky.

"The city was always enveloped by fog and smog, " explained Li, the local economist.

Dense air pollution blanketed cities like Los Angeles, where smog alerts were a fact of life.

So let us restrict ourselves to the vista: cranes, skyscrapers, spanking new rail networks and smog: China.

Achieves, the security, the environmental protection effectively truly, not toxic smog, the non-electric shock merit.

Most of the time, Chongqing's sky is grey with fog and smog, but on clear days people fly kites and play badminton in public plazas.

The country's latest innovations, including a paint that cleans the air by eating smog, will be displayed for two weeks this summer.

As the smog ages and reacts with oxygen, organic and sulfuric acids condense as droplets, increasing the haze.

Automobile exhaust fumes are one of the major causes of smog.

"This is definitely smog, not sand, " said the first spokesman.

Certain air pollutants (see smog) become more reactive and form noxious compounds in photochemical reactions.

the only difference from ancient times is that now the fog, mixed with smog, obscures the tops of the skyscrapers.

Environmental degradation forces bicyclists to wear smog masks and has rendered the Yangtze dolphin extinct.

Second, the latitude and longitude of the smog area was calculated with these characteristics.

Obama on Friday withdrew new rules to limit smog pollution that businesses had argued would kill jobs and cost them billions of dollars.

To better understand the photochemical smog pollution hazards and human impact of various control methods.

Yet scientists don't know how big of a role these secondary aerosols play in smog.

It took rules to keep lead out of petrol and smog away from London.

The humanity discharges the factory in the air the smog and the motor vehicle waste gas, the air pollution.

Whst is worse, cars are responsible for most of the smog in cities, which pollutes the environment seriously.

Many factories in the valley poured smoke and fumes into the foggy air. This created a dark smog of smoke and fog combined.

The pollutants had left some of Shanghai's neighboring provinces shrouded in smog and fog.

Scientists studied the causes of the disaster. They concluded that the illnesses and deaths were caused by chemicals in the smog.

The pollutants left some of Shanghai's neighboring provinces shrouded in smog and fog.

When smoking, use a dagger to chop up the smog each time comes out from the mouth.

But like all superheroes, the Captain had his weaknesses: pollution, radiation, toxic waste, and smog.

Now scientists warn that if not under control, the unseen energy waves, "electric smog" , may be hazardous to our health.

So there will be little respite from the dense data smog, which some researchers fear may be poisonous.

ozone is an important contributor to photochemical smog.

In the winter of 1952, dense smog in London caused mainly by heavy coal combustion killed about 12, 000 people in the city.

Photochemical ozone and smog are created as nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons react to sunlight.

Jacqueline Lawrence said on previous visits to Beijing the smog had disrupted visibility on course.

Fighter jets flew over Beijing in bright blue skies free from the thick smog of the previous two days.

He says who cares about the smog? He says it wasn't that bad. He says what's important is that it was warm and he hates the cold.

Oppressive heat and waves of toxic smog in Moscow have seen the death rate reach 700 a day, a senior Russian health official said today.

In this paper, n-alkanes of extractable organic matter of airborne particulate samples, exhausted gas and smog dust were examined by GC-MS.

The recalcitrant haze and smog appear to be abating .

The air is polluted with the smother of traffic and industrial smog.

Smog used to bring London traffic to a standstill.

Asked about the atrocious smog blanketing Beijing and the traffic jams that made driving there a threat to mental health, she shrugged.

In this paper, the radiative effect of Lanzhou urban smog layer is calculated by using a simplified longwave radiative scheme.

We create ordered energy from oil and coal at the price of the entropy of smog.

But this time the city's legendary smog was barely visible.

Pollution-control measures are either not strict or non-existent, leading to choking clouds of smog.

Presumably the Beijing smog will have prepared the performers for the clouds of cigarette smoke outside Hall 4.

Over 27, 000 forest fires have been detected in the country since July, casting a thick blanket of smog over the Russian capital.

Smog has caused entire Chinese cities to disappear from satellite photographs.

The newly-developed smog alarm system will trigger the alarm once smoke or fog reaches certain degree.

The National Meteorological Center issued a yellow smog alert Sunday morning.

Others have called them the 'smog games' for the city's dreadful air pollution.

But the sulphur that spews from the smokestacks of coal-fired power stations causes acid rain and the soot generates smog.

Industry, it turned out, accounted for only ten percent of the smog in the city.

Experts say that city has something in common with Los Angeles: smog.

As I approached this blackest of black lands, the smog was so thick it seemed to consume its source.

Smog can form in almost every climate, but is far worse during periods of warmer, sunnier weather .

So more steel mills and chemical plants mean moreacid rain and smog, not to mention global warming.

The smog is due to invisible gases, mostly from automobile exhaust.

A layer of smog can be seen above Manhattan through the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York May 21, 2009.

In 1783, the Icelandic volcano Laki sent a sulphurous smog over Europe, plunging it into an extreme winter that killed thousands.

Soon, the mill began operations, swallowing scrap metal and then spitting out steel and smog.

Therefore when launch will not produce the formidable shock-wave and the smog.

Dweller's in home usually burns once lighting a fire violent, fire sprawl is quick, full of smog.

A man displays a smog forecast on his handheld pager, seen here.

In addition, tropospheric ozone, a main constituent of photochemical smog, will increase if motor vehicle use continues to rise.

We were prevented by heavy smog (from) seeing anything.

The world may be focused on Beijing's smog this week, but our efforts are probably still better spent worrying about what we do at home.

Smog shrouded Beijing and some other provinces again on Sunday, disrupting expressway traffic and flights.

What is worse, cars are responsible for most of the smog in cities, which pollutes the environment seriously.

Smog dims the sunlight, traffic snarls through the streets, and crime boils under the city's skin.

And that means weaker sea breezes to clear away the smog.

Smog is a major problem facing traditional industrial cities.

Water, foil, wood, duck weed, smog, compressed soil, mushrooms.

Power plants are a significant contributor to smog and we introduced new limits on their emissions.

Smog makes it hard to see the Los Angeles Civic Center on Jan.

Vast stretches of peat bog surrounding the city have dried out and caught fire covering Moscow with choking smog.

Add to that its more notorious conditions, namely altitude and smog, and you have the most inhospitable of venues for visiting teams.

This week, there has been more fog than smog in Beijing and even a few genuine blue-sky days.

discriminable faults; a skyline that was discriminable even through smog.

American executives complain that they have trouble recruiting and keeping talented managers there because of the smog and air pollution.

Despite the slowly improving smog, getting around by bike is an ideal way to explore Beijing.

1, 000 children exposed to this smog episode at ages less than 1 year were evaluated during subsequent years.

And then with the improved Ostu segmentation algorithm, the interference of smog is eliminated.

Or that's the dream-analogy I took from my morning taxi ride through the thick, thick smog of China's largest city.

The lyrics and imagery speak of over-fishing, deforestation, and smog.

Volatile organic compounds VOCs also contribute to smog.

although large amounts of them concentrated in cities are visible as smog.

Finally, a heavy rain washed away the smog.

The relief from the summer smog could be short-lived, however.

Every year these factories pour millions upon millions of tons of smog into air.

Beijing residents are worried the old levels of smog will return.

HEMMED in by mountains and volcanoes, Mexico City is the perfect smog-trap.

Terpense and hydrocarbons are known, however, to participate in the reaction which can cause smog.

Beijing's air pollution reached dangerous levels yet again on Sunday, marking the third consecutive day of severe smog.

THIN air, thick smog and bad drivers make Mexico City hard going for cyclists.

People who live near that factory have got sick of the heavy smog from it.

Thecity of Tokyo has one of the most serious smog problems in the world.

In addition, many of the mines contaminate local water supplies and produce unhealthy, smog-inducing dust in great quantities.

The smog persisted throughout the day.

A 2010 Chinese government report said an increase in acid rain, haze and photochemical smog was caused by growth in vehicle emissions.

The drivers were prevented by heavy smog from seeing anything.

Those atoms can contribute to smog formation in coastal areas.

Vlasov. "The smog is surely very toxic and poisonous to breathe. "

Is the air in this area still being polluted by smog?

I don't like the smog here.

Jean: So how thick was the smog?

Before she came to Beijing, Nadine Lewman says, her impression of China was of " sweatshops and smog. "

Members of the Highland Park Optimist Club wear smog-gas masks at banquet, circa 1954.

Yesterday, the smog levels in Beijing hit record levels.

It also generates much less smog-forming nitrogen oxide.

But this is no longer guaranteed, as the smog of May 14 showed.

Pedestrians wear face-masks, some are complaining about the smog.

They will be a huge help in reducing the smog in Chinese cities and could even help start to reduce CO2 emissions.

The problems we are facing are mainly street level pollution and regional smog.

A research team tests a guinea pig's reaction to smog in a 1964 L. A. experiment.

Black smog reduced visibility to about fifty yards.

When the driver stopped in the outlying village of Liucunzhen, locals told us they lived most of their lives in smog.

WMO scientists assess and monitor air pollutants such as ground-level ozone, smog, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide.

One look out the window at Tianjin's choking smog and stinking waterways indicates a lot more needs to be done.

NOx is a precursor of smog; SOx contributes to particulate matter; and PM has been shown to lead to health problems.

Below is the brown smog of Kabul; beyond, snowy mountains.

Men in suits watch an experimental smog-control device on a smokestack in 1948.

The aggregation of data makes it possible to identify, say, a median level of smog exposure.

But not long after that , over 4000 people died as a result of the smog.

Like regular smog, volcanic smog is made up of poisonous gases which can kill you.

There are increasing concerns on the air pollution caused by photochemical smog in cities.

The air is polluted with heavy smog, isn't it?

There was smog, which I knew was toxic.

The rain washes away the smog that has enveloped Beijing for the past week, but this boy's demand for better air quality didn't fade.

Smog blankets large Chinese cities.

These can cause smog and sicknesses like lung cancer.

There is some smog over the village because the villagers began to cook .

On the way up, we could vaguely see the group of tall buildings in downtown LA through the smog.

In polluted urban areas, they also enhance production of ozone, a key ingredient of smog that is potentially toxic to animal and plant life.

If smog gets too bad people will be compelled to wear GAS masks on the streets.

It's a relative breath of fresh air for smog-weary Beijingers.

The disastrous effects of smog are nothing new.

Vehicle emissions contribute to health and environmental problems such as urban smog, air toxics, and global warming.

Leaving China where it is today, with large areas engulfed in smog.

Smog has thickened the air.

If China is now the world's factory, the penalty is that China now produces the world's smog.

In 1999, the District of Columbia Circuit Court took up Dudley's smog argument.

The minute particles act like urban smog or acid rain. They can penetrate deep into the human body.

Los Angeles is famous for the rush hour traffic and the smog caused by car pollution.

Smog is a mixture of fog and smoke which occurs in some busy industrial cities.

Smog hung over the city.

In the same, smog is the combination of smoke and fog.

Another type of smog occurs in Los Angeles.

Dense smog settled over the North China Plain on February 20, 2011.

Under the cover of the smog, He snatched the pot on the sly.

After the Great Smog of 1952, which left around 10, 000 dead, industrialists said two things.

On the streets, you can see cars producing smog.

In 1948, a killer smog made half of the population sick, there were 17 deaths.

The smog remained for four days. During that time, thousands of people became ill.

It's not only hot today, but the smog is quite bad.

The spreading of cable groove fire makes the poisonous smog of high temperature collect and it can cause great economic and human loss.

Los Angeles suffered its first big smog attack 67 years ago Monday.

Regardless of Beijing's choking smog, traffic and politics, it will be hard to match living and working in China.

Many old people died from the smog.

Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to get around without a car, so it's no wonder there is a lot of smog.

The infamous Smog of London in the 1950s is a case in point.

Smog obscures our view.

The huge ship sank long ago in the smog.

Smog is a mixture of smoke and fog.

Smog is more prevalent in urban centers.

Urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog; the philosophical problem of evil.

No , the ice caps are not melting any faster than they are now . There is also far less smog and industrial waste in 2036 .