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Indonesia's forest fires feed 'brown cloud' of pollution choking Asia's cities

2014-03-22 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: High above the vast Indonesian island of Sumatra, satellites identify hundreds of plumes of smoke drifting over the oil palm plantations and rainforests. They look harmless as the monsoon winds sweep them north and east towards Singapore, Malaysia and deep into Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. But at ground level, south-east Asian cities have been choking for weeks, wreathed in an acrid, stinking blanket of half-burned vegetation mixed with industrial pollution, car exhaust fumes and ash. From Palangkarya...

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Man Saves Arlene Schnitzer from Choking

2014-02-04 05:57:13| Steel - Topix.net

Tom Smith heard a woman choking while he was having lunch at a Wilsonville Burger King.

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Secondhand smoke: Why East Coast cities are still choking on midwestern pollution

2013-12-13 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: When pollution drifts by wind into other states, landing in peoples lungs and endangering their lives, it seems sensible to require the state where the pollution originated to put in controls so its industry stops harming its neighbors. Its like a family of smokers in which a child has asthma: The onus is on the adults to limit their smoking so it doesnt reach the crib or the playroom. But what if the pollution is coming from several different states, and mixing in ways that its difficult...

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Shanghai's Choking Smog Registers 'Beyond Index'

2013-12-06 20:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: In the latest smog-related health scare in China, officials in Shanghai on Friday ordered schoolchildren to stay indoors, halted all construction and even delayed flights in and out of the city, which has been enveloped in a thick blanket of haze, reducing visibility in places to less than 150 feet. NPR's Frank Langfitt reports from Shanghai that the commercial capital's Air Quality Index soared above 500 for the first time ever, according to government sensors. He says officials described the readings...

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