The smoggy air in Beijing has triggered widespread concerns over environment in China.

Classic smog results from large amounts of coal burning in an area caused by a mixture of smoke and sulfur dioxide.

Population growth, urbanization, and industrialization are exacerbating resource related stresses, with some cities experiencing severe water shortages, and degrading the environment (as anyone who has experienced Beijing s smog can attest).

Unlike, say, acid rain or smog, it is not a conventional environmental problem. It is as much an energy problem, an economic development problem, or a land use problem.

Dust and smog choke its cities.

This is the EUPHORE Smog Chamber in Spain.

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When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

Road transport is also a major contributor to local air pollution and smog.

The thick fog made it hard to see the road.

The boy said that the taxi vanished into the fog.

Imagine you're driving in a fog.

It is a glorious welcome, even in fog.

Then Solomon said, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Then Solomon said, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in thick darkness.

Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

I spend a lot of time in gas stations too empty train stations.

The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

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Russian officials are monitoring carbon monoxide levels, which have increased 1.5 times since the smog rolled in.

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Moreover, higher density buildings will be near subway stations or other public mass transport.

Seven way stations, including at Kadugli, Kauda and Malakal, are expected to be completed before the end of the year.

Would he have allowed himself such a vacation while his city was being ravaged by heat and toxic smog? Of course not.

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We have a choice.

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All references are erased, leaving only an optical whiteout and white noise of the pulsing nozzles.

The Mountain of Smoke is named as such because of the haze which often surrounds it on humid days.

Several way stations are under construction.

MOSCOW For over a month, Moscow has been boiling in 40 degree (100 degrees Fahrenheit) heat and heavy, sticky, eye burning smog.

There is no air conditioning in the hospital, no ventilators working, smog is penetrating everywhere, including the emergency room s operating theatre.

The fog freezes usually to the windward side of tree branches, wires, or any other solid objects.

The sea winds from Davis Strait moderate the climate, with the area known for its fogs.

Hard rime is a white ice that forms when the water droplets in fog freeze to the outer surfaces of objects.

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