Showing posts with label air pollution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label air pollution. Show all posts
Thursday, December 11, 2025

East Asian Nations Tackle Air Pollution; Inadvertently Worsen Climate Change.

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New pollution control laws in eastern Asian countries have reduced the number of smoggy days like this in the region substantially. But now ...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Air Quality Still Crappy In Most Of U.S., Canada Including Vermont As Wildfires Rage

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Wildfire smoke from Canada turned the setting sun over Georgia, Vermont on Sunday into a weird, red dot. The dot eventually disappeared in t...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Canadian Wildfire Season Mercifully Ends After Unprecedented Burn Year

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Chart shows the monthly trend line in acreage burned in Canadian wildfires. Pink line is 2023. All the other lines are yearly fire activity ...
Friday, July 8, 2022

Does Cleaner Air Create More Hurricanes?

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Hurricanes Irma and Jose in the Atlantic Ocean in 2017. Less pollution due to the Clean Air Act seems to be one reason hurricanes are increa...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Will Olympic Athletes Choke On Foul Beijing Air? Some Officials Worry

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Officials are worried about air pollution in and near  Beijing during the upcoming Winter Olympics next month. On top of everything else to ...
Monday, July 26, 2021

The Smoke Is Back; Then It Gets Really Chilly For July/August

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A small thunderstorm erupts amid smoky haze last evening looking east from St. Albans, Vermont. The smoke is even thicker today, prompting a...
Sunday, May 2, 2021

Report: Vermont Among U.S. Places With Cleanest Air

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A blue sky day with very clean air in St. Albans, Vermont last summer. Vermont had some of the least  polluted air in the nation, according ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Sally To Drown Gulf Coast; Elsewhere, Sunny Sept. Day Shrouded In Smoke

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We'll start today with the dangerous first, then follow up with the sad and dismaying. I'm a bucket of cheer this morning aren't...