Tag: Pollution

Places with the most lethal air quality

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Here’s where you’re most likely to die from air pollution
John Metcalfe, grist.org

Click to embiggen.Where on Earth are you most likely to die early from air pollution? NASA provides the answer with this mortally serious view of the planet, and it is: lots of places.Like tar stains on a healthy lung, the sickly yellow and…

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Anthropological indicators of air pollution emerging: nose hair length

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This Weird Map Visualizes Air Pollution as Nose Hair Length
smithsonianmag.com

If there’s one thing nobody wants, it’s real­ly long nose hairs. Which is per­haps why Clean Air Asia has decid­ed to start visu­al­iz­ing each per­son’s air pol­lu­tion expo­sure as super-long, dis­gust­ing nose hairs. The group says:

The more…

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Made In China – Consumed All Over The World and the meaning of the Ningbo/宁波 port town protests against air pollution… (Photo credit: Tjebbe van Tijen / Imaginary Museum Projects)

How to reduce household air pollutants

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Your House Is Killing You. Here’s How To Stop It
By Katherine Bagley, popsci.com

A roundup of the high- and low-tech solutions to mitigate dangerous concentrations of airborne chemicals at home

Your comfy couch. The wood­en chairs in your kitchen. The paint you spent months pick­ing out. Clean­ing sup­plies piled under the…

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