Note that the estimates presented here are subject to uncertainty due to a lack of ground truth in many aspects, although they are likely the best source of information on the matter.Velasco, ErikMolina Center for Energy and the EnvironmentRetama, Armando...
How bad is air pollution in South Korea? During the winter and spring of 2019, the Korean Peninsula was engulfed in the worst type of fine dust. From January to March, 12 emergency measures to reduce fine dust were imposed but only in the metropolitan area. In March, for the first time...
How bad is air pollution in South Korea? During the winter and spring of 2019, the Korean Peninsula was engulfed in the worst type of fine dust. From January to March, 12 emergency measures to reduce fine dust were imposed but only in the metropolitan area. In March, for the first time...
At 2.2 billion people, East Asia and Pacific (EAP) has the highest number of people exposed to unsafe PM2.5 concentrations, corresponding to about 95 percent of its total population. In South Asia (SAR), about 1.8 billion people (99 percent) are exposed to unsafe air pollution levels. In ...
Vietnam has huge potential in developing renewable energy as the country works to deal with air pollution through green transition, experts say. Already, since making its global commitments to green energy, Vietnam has canceled or sh...
The 15 papers published in this focus issue showcase a variety of studies relating to drivers and impacts of LCLUC and air pollution in different South/Southeast Asian (S/SEA) countries. This synthesis article, in addition to giving context to the articles in this focus issue, also reviews ...
Simulated mean surface PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations exceeded the WHO air quality during September to October 2015, almost everywhere across Equatorial Asia (Fig. 3a and Figure S3a). To estimate the impact of this regional pollution, we calculate the number of people exposed to PM concentrations ...
air pollution opinion on green and sustainable business, environment, cleantech, CSR in Asia Pacific.
It said that particulate pollution was also a "signifiant concern" across southeast Asia, where forest and crop fires were combining with traffic and power plant fumes to create toxic air. Some 89 percent of the region's 650 million people live in areas where air pollution exceeds the World ...
An air pollution plume from Southern and Eastern Asia, including regions in India and China, was predicted by the FLEXPART particle dispersion model to arrive in the upper troposphere over Europe on 24ndash;25 March 2006. According to the model, the plume was exported from Southeast Asia only ...