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Plume Labs has launched its World Air Map, a live map of air pollution around the world to show which cities are suffering the most. They can estimate hourly air pollution levels everywhere in the world. App is available for both iOS and Android. strom-report.de/air-pollution-map/
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Yesterday I joined with a River cruise in Buriganga River. I was surprise to see the condition beside this poor river. there were nothing to see except Brick field all around us. the Air & water pollution was serious. Brickfields have been blamed for increasing air pollution, especially during the dry season. The pollution is caused by poor quality of fuel and improper design of chimneys. Ash, dust and sulfur dioxide gas pollute the areas surrounding brickfields and acid rain syndrome has become a regular phenomenon in such areas. Brickfields also cause crop loss, corrosion of metallic content of soil and loss of soil fertility. Burning in kiln makes the land unusable for cultivation for several years.
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সভ্যতার বিকাশের সাথে সাথে মানুষ গড়ে তুলেছে সুবিশাল সব স্থাপনা। ঢাকা শহরের আকাশচুম্বি দালান-কোঠাগুলার দিকে চোখ তুলে তাকাতে গেলে ঘাড় ব্যাথা হয়ে যায়। কিন্তু এই গড়ার পেছনে কতটুকু ধংস্ব হচ্ছে তা কি আমরা ভেবে দেখেছি? ঢাকা সংলগ্ন বুড়িগঙ্গা নদীর দুই তীর এ যতদূর চোখ যায় শুধু ইটের ভাটা আর ইটের ভাটা। বায়ুদূষনের কারনে প্রাণখুলে শ্বাস নেওয়া যায়না আর পানি দূষনে বুড়িগঙ্গা আজ মৃতপ্রায় । সত্যি মাঝে মাঝে প্রশ্ন হয় কোন পথে চলছি আমরা গড়া না ভাঙা?
KEJAN, Isfahan province, Iran — Green emissions: Beautiful white clouds in a blue sky appear to be emitted from the switched off chimneys of an abandoned brick building in central rural Iran.
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©2018 Germán Vogel - All rights reserved - No usage allowed in any form without the written consent of the photographer.KEJAN, Isfahan province, Iran — Beautiful white clouds of a blue sky appear to be emitted from the otherwise inactive chimneys of an old brick building in rural central Iran.
Maybe the exhaust pipe installer was mad at the building owner for some reason. Or maybe, since no one has had this exhaust pipe re-positioned in spite of the damgage it was causing, the owners never noticed. (The offending pipe is pretty far up in the air.) Or they saw it but just had had too many other things to worry about. The fine restaurant housed in this building had gone out of business when I took this photo.
Location: An otherwise elegant old building, formerly housing Resaurant Winstub a L'Etoile, Mulhouse, Alsace FR.
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It's time for Spring, which means it's time for hundreds of thousands of birds to return home from its winter migration. As Spring migration will begin in few days; what will be different is that the birds will now fly in less polluted air. Since COVID-19 began in first week of Jan & later spread across the world over the three months period, though several countries created a travel ban only recently, but people started staying home since past few weeks leaving less cars on road, less air travel, resulting in less carbon emission.
As an individual I'm not sure how much this period of self quarantine and self isolation by people can contribute to the recovery of global warming, but at this time and for a very first time it's a huge contribution by entire world with almost all countries creating travel ban until mid April, minimizing air travel & there by minimizing air pollution & so many indirect pollution like plastic wastage (one time food packets, water bottles & so on...) through hundreds of thousands of Air travel & other modes of travels.
I'm sure this will result in less wastage and pollution for at least until this ban continues. May be its the nature that's reclaiming its possession by keeping all of us away from polluting it! It's right time to use this situation & follow certain habits; like limiting our lavish usage of one time plastics like water bottles, plastic carry bags (to go plastic bags).
Do you think toilet paper can keep you clean? If you are a non Indian reading this post, you can learn how to avoid toilet papers & keep you hygine after the business is done. Checkout this video by our Indian youtube star, a video which he made 9 years back & now republished for everyones benefit.
Let's hope that this time of Pandemic is in a way threat to human race & while we try to recover from this, let nature recover its wealth back!
The foggy beams of the oncoming car headlights are not due to rain or fog. Smog is more like it.
A depressing sight of Section 14 Petaling Jaya around 10 pm tonight, no thanks to the choking pollution caused by the massive man made, forest fires in neighboring Sumatra, Indonesia. It has been like this since last August 2015 and is an annual phenomenon for Southeast Asia.
The last two really bad haze incidents that I could remember were in August 2005 and 1997.
BTW, the motor bikes at the right belong to the despatch riders working for the Mc Donald's and Pizza Hut outlet (off frame).
Irving Oil is the largest oil refinery in Canada and is situated in St-John, New Brunswick.
This picture is only a small portion of the plant.
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..... makes for a very grey world when it comes down ..... and for predominantly grey photographs. The air pollution is palpable. A toxic haze that registers off the charts many days & governmental control of it seemingly a losing battle. Or perhaps a half -hearted battle. 'Bad air is the price of China's prosperity' (W5) If economic growth is King motivation to control the nation's environmental crisis is going to be a lower subject. Beijing sits next to 'China's industrial heartland'. You know, that place that makes all the cheap 'made in China' goods we love to buy .... from clothes to electronics & everything in between! A heartland that produces the largest number of pollutants in the world. There's no escape. More than 50% of our group, including me, was gripped by the notorious 'Beijing Cough'. Two or three needed doctors & hospital care. Only since I've been home has mine abated. We survived 4 days in Beijing (there's a price to pay to get to walk that Great Wall, enter the Forbidden City, et al *~*) Wouldn't want to live there.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, at 1776 kms (1104 miles) is the earliest & longest man-made canal in the world. The timeline of Chinese history is vast indeed, going back many thousands of years BC but modern belief is that the north-south waterway was begun, for trading purposes, by Yu the Great in the 6th Century BC, added to by each successive dynasty & renovated in its entirety in the 1400's of the Ming Dynasty after the capital was moved from Nanjing to Beijing. That's the absolute basics of what I've been able to grasp. Feel free to add or correct *~*
Ulanbataar, Mongolia, 25 Apr 2016
This is the major point-source of coal smoke in the Tuul River basin and Ulanbataar.
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April 5, 2012: A day before the full moon. Googling the Internet, Time and Date comes up with 18:50 for the moonrise and 19:47 for the sunset. The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE) confirms that +/- one minute and also shows the perfect place to be for the event to get the rising moon just behind downtown Buffalo.
On that note, I'd like to note that TPE is a truly great simple powerful tool that makes planning for sun and moon rises and sets much easier than anything else I had used before.
The choice was to head out this night, or to wait a day for the actual full moon and a different timing, especially of the moonrise, which would be at 20:06, more than an hour later and after the 19:48 sunset.
I decided to head out this night reasoning that the daylight would make it easier to balance the bright moon with the landscape underneath. I arrived on location about half an hour early and enjoyed the views of the Buffalo skyline bathing in the warm light of the setting sun. I've captured several individual photographs, and also some sequences to be stitched into a wide sweeping panorama of the city's waterfront. Then the watch showed the moonrise time and I kept my eyes glued on the east, not 100% sure what building to look at. As time went on I felt I should have seen the moon by now, ... and then I did! This very faint but huge ball rose right over the beautiful Buffalo City Hall. What a sight!
The primary lens of choice for this night was the Nikon 80-400mm zoom lens so that I could capture the moon as large as possible with only a building or two, but also with a moderate skyline when zoomed back out to 80mm.
That is how the first two photos were created, one close up of the Buffalo CIty Hall and one wider, capturing a large portion of the Buffalo skyline. Another thing that became obvious was that the moon was gradually getting brighter as it rose higher. With the zoom in action, the reason may not have been so obvious but looking at the wider angle, it is quite clear why. In my Flickr post, I called the layer a layer of smog but got slight pushback. Whether smog or not, it surely is air pollution that kept the moon barely visible at first, then nicely balanced. And as the moon rose higher and the daylight became dimmer, the balance vanished later.
So, did my plan work? ...
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Based on the Farmers' Almanac this was a Full Pink Moon.
Not the greatest of snapshots, but see that big cloud of diesel smoke, spewing out of Skender’s consturction site about every 10-15 minutes? Lovely particulates and pollution
Cornish, Maine.
Panorama view of our sunset today from Highland Farms in Cornish.
Lately our sunsets have been showing a good deal of pollution in the atmosphere, today the pollution was quite evident as light from the sun had a hard time getting through all of the polluting particles making it appear as just a red ball in the sky.
27 Sep 1990, Abadan, Jazire-ye Abadan, Iran --- An Iranian soldier watches as smoke billows from multiple burning oil refineries in Abadan, Iran. Abadan, which contains a high concentration of oil fields and refineries, became a front-line city during the Iran-Iraq War, resulting in most of the city being destroyed by Iraqi attacks. --- Image by © Henri Bureau/Sygma/Corbis
Satellite data show that New York City has seen a 32 percent decrease in nitrogen dioxide between the 2005-2007 and 2009-2011 periods. Research has determined how a city's pollution relates to the size of its population. New York City tops the charts in terms of U.S. population, so it's no surprise that the city has seen high concentrations of air pollution. But even here, the air is on the mend.
To see the feature story on NASA.gov go to: 1.usa.gov/1lPXAzw
The image shows how nitrogen dioxide concentrations during spring and summer months, averaged from 2005-2007 (left), compare to the average from 2009-2011 (right). Measurements of nitrogen dioxide from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASA's Aura satellite depict the concentration of the gas throughout a column of air in the troposphere, Earth's lowest atmospheric layer. The images are color-coded: Orange and red areas denote high concentrations and blue and green denote lower concentrations.
Credit: Images were composed by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio based on data and input provided by atmospheric scientists Yasuko Yoshida, Lok Lamsal, and Bryan Duncan, all of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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The scene this afternoon in Beijing, where the pollution index at the US Embassy reached the astonishing level of 728 755 (including 804 886 parts per million of PM2.5). Even the local Chinese monitoring stations have been reporting indexes of 500 (at which point the scale breaks) across the North China Plain. The high pollution levels are predicted to last up to three days.
This image - untouched in Photoshop - should be showing the CCTV and TVCC towers, around 500m away.
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Beijing, China, Jan 19th 2013, 10:35 a.m.
Seen in
Policy Innovations (homepage), Ma Jun, China Dialogue, Jan 2013:
www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/innovations/data/000235
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Mother Nature Network, Jim Motavalli, Jan 31st 2013:
www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/choking-beiji...
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Youngzine, Arati Rao, Jan 20th 2013:
www.youngzine.org/article/beijing-cannot-breathe
Air quality in Beijing and other parts of China have hit the headlines in the past two weeks, with the AQI (空气质量指数 - Air Quality Index) currently the number in vogue. (Photo unedited).
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〉300： 健康人运动耐受力降低，有明显强烈症状，提前出现某些疾病。建议老年人和病人应当留在室内，避免体力消耗，一般人群应避免户外活动。
> 300: Everyone should avoid all physical activity outdoors; people with heart or lung disease, older adults, and children should remain indoors and keep activity levels low.
The new Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission has delivered its first images, highlighting concentrations of atmospheric nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and ozone. Despite being preliminary, these images mark a major milestone in Europe’s ability to monitor air quality all the way from geostationary orbit, 36 000 kilometres above Earth.
This image shows a vertical column of ozone. While ozone high up in the stratosphere plays a crucial role in shielding life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation, ozone in the lower atmosphere acts as a pollutant, contributing to poor air quality and respiratory problems.
The overall ozone levels here are within the expected range. The large-scale distribution, featuring a maximum over the Balkans and Greece and a minimum over the Baltic region, is consistent with patterns detected on the same day by heritage instruments such as GOME-2 on the MetOp satellites and Tropomi on the Sentinel-5 Precursor mission.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2025), processed by IUP-Bremen/DLR/ESA; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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Safdarjung Tomb, in the middle of some smog in New Delhi, India || November 02, 2016
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A reminder of one of my favourite trips to China from last year - this is the huge Mao statue in the centre of Kashgar, photographed from the rooftop of our Hotel into the rather murky afternoon sky using the Canon 70-200/2.8L.
A truly fascinating city to visit!
Strobist info : NikonSB910Speedlight in softbox right as mainlight, NikonSB910Speedlight in umbrella left as fill light.
"As I walked my path through life
My body being my temple of ideas
I wanted to express myself, my own way
Walking into the shop that day
I found my expression waiting for me
Custom drawn just for me in black line art
I made my way into the studio in the back
My nerves dancing in my skin and mind
As I sat down in the chair I knew this was it
Forever in my skin it would lay
As the artist prepared the machines
I watched in awe of his precision and care
The time had come and that buzz and click began
My flesh was prepared to receive its gift
As the razor slid down my back I closed my eyes
It was time to lay the idea into my skin
With artist vision the hands and steel became one
Flowing over my back in defined motion
A picture became a living portrait of life
As the minutes passed I felt the ink be laid
Into my skin like a humming bird kisses a rose
When all was said and done I stood once more
This time to see my idea frozen in time
As a portrait of vision in my skin
Laid in brilliant color for the first time
Now I understand the meaning of a Tattoo."
Entitled: Enduring Success
Poetic words By Kat Nelson
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River side brick field in Bangladesh on a overcast day. Brick fields are one of main reason for air pollution in Bangladesh
Duncan Rawlinson's series, "Visions of Canada Burning," presents a captivating visual testament of nature's ferocity through the lens of Canadian wildfires. Leveraging advanced AI tools, Rawlinson transforms his vision into vivid images that lay bare the raw power and tragic beauty of the wildfires. His technique brings forth a uniquely ethereal quality, casting a fresh perspective on the profound impact of these natural disasters. This innovative approach not only enhances the dramatic intensity of the subject but also bridges the gap between traditional photography and the evolving world of digital artistry. It's a compelling homage to nature's wild unpredictability and a stark reminder of its consequences.
Smoke from the Holy Fire fills the sky over Orange County, California, on Thursday, August 9, 2018. An airliner heads for clear sky over the ocean after departing from John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana.
This image defines air pollution. It is a photo I shot from the airplane windowearly one morning last fall, as we taxied to the arrivals gate at Indira Gandhi Airport in New Delhi, India. The air was visible polluted and had a punjent smoky smell. Within my first day is was coughing continuously and had to don on a N95 mask. At the time New Delhi was experiencing one of its worst air pollution events and was implementing a number restrictions on the populace to try to reduce the problem, but tese seemed to be having little effect.
Powerplant Duisburg-Walsum
Walsum power plant is a coal-fired power station owned by Evonik Industries. It is in the Walsum quarter of Duisburg, on the area of the former Walsum coal mine.
It has an installed output capacity of 600 megawatts (MW). The chimney is 300 metres high, one of the highest chimneys in Germany. The power station supplies not only electricity but also process steam for the paper factory of the Norske Skog as well as long-distance heating and electricity to Fernwärmeschiene Niederrhein and the Walsum coal mine. The power station produces annually out approximately 930,000 tons of coal approximately 2.2 billion a KW/H electricity, 33 millions a kW/H of long-distance heating, 500,000 t process steam and 250 millions m³ compressed air per year. It has a coal storage capacity of 34.000 t.
(Source: wikipedia)