Air pollution far more severe than what’s common today used to plague many American towns and cities.
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Wildfires and agricultural burning have produced thick haze for the past month.
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Air pollution is less common in southern China, but Guangdong province can still get pretty hazy.
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Thick haze hung over northern India in the latter part of October 2014.
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Simulations of air pollution from the GOCART model help show how much skies have cleared over Europe and North America even as they have darkened over Asia in the last decade.
Winds carried thick plumes of smoke and pollution across the United States and Canada.
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NASA’s Aura satellite observes nitrogen dioxide hovering over many cities in the region, trapped by winter weather conditions.
A collaborative field study seeks to advance NASA’s ability to monitor air quality from space.
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An unusual amount of smoke from wildfires has spread across hundreds of miles.
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Smog and haze-filled clouds blanketed Beijing and other parts of China.
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An outbreak of severe pollution prompted officials in Paris to bar half of all vehicles from the roads.
The Sichuan Basin’s bowl-shaped topography helps trap air pollution.
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Haze, clouds, and fog mingled in China’s Sichuan Basin on December 24, 2014.
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The skies over northern India are some of the haziest—but also most variable—in the world.
December 2013 brought thick haze that stretched from Beijing to Shanghai.
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Beijing suffers from severe air pollution. The air quality in Beijing is determined by its geography, weather conditions, and anthropogenic emissions.
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A combination of dust and air pollution hovered over much of the coastal plain.
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Acquired in early November 2011, this natural-color image shows the intermittent haze that has hovered over eastern China for weeks.