Los Angeles has endured the barbs of many detractors. Critics refer to it either as a laid-back “la-la land” or, conversely, as a place reeling from earthquakes, fire,smog, gang warfare, and riots. The city’s defenders admire its mild climate and geographic variety. They claim that ...
most of the city’s heavy industry have reduced the phenomenon. However, this has beenoffsetsomewhat by the growth of an almost uninterrupted built-up area around the city, which reduces local air circulation, and by the gray smog, or traffic-relatedair pollution, that often covers the city....
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There are three new car-free bridges on a widely used four-mile corridor of the L.A. River — one of the few places where it is ameandering naturalized channelnot fully encased in a concrete chute — and this morning was a chance to honor all three at once. Standing before a sign th...
Author contributions: SMOG and MCMG designed this study; SMOG, LLP, MCMG, PAAR collected the data; SMOG performed the analysis and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All authors have read, contributed, edited, and agreed to the final draft of the manuscript. Research funding: Post-doc...
Most of the issues that have people convinced that everything is awful are not so daunting when viewed on a historic scale. The environment? The air in cities is immeasurably cleaner than when I grew up (I remember smog so think in LA you couldn't see anything). Water quality is better...
The prevention of coal burning in urban areas by the enactment of the Clean Air Acts in the UK and elsewhere, had largely eliminated the dense winter smoke fogs that saw epidemics of thousands of deaths, as in the ‘great smog’ of 1952 in London, and there was a feeling that the ...
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the increased exploitation of soybean oil and palm oil has led to vast deforestation, smog emissions and heavily impacted on biodiversity in tropical regions. One promising alternative, potentially capable of meeting future demand sustainably, are oleaginous yeasts. Despite being known about for 143 yea...
and the future potential of cities driven by energy more directly harvested from the sun. Pre-city modes of life, like pastoralism, have become engulfed in power emanating from cities. The layer of smog over the approaching fringe of Nairobi attests to location of the world’s fastest-growing...