Saturday, October 21, 2017

You do not need to know 10 things about air pollution only one: It is too late to do anything about it try as you may

                                             A Russian woman wears a face mask to pro
  Air Pollution: 10 Things You Need To Know:  "The best advice is not to go out when pollution levels are high and not to take part in strenuous exercise."  Face masks are a common sight in many parts of the world, :: Will people need to start wearing face masks?

Worsening air pollution in places like China has made face masks a must-have accessory for many people. However, Dr Carol Cooper, a London GP, said: "A good piece of advice is not to bother. They're not generally very effective and wearing one can actually make breathing more difficult. "Wearing a face mask in somewhere like southeast Asia is more of a cultural thing than a medical one." 
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First 'Orange' Pollution Alert as Smog Rolls into Beijing but where the hell is the Red alert?

Cars travel on a road amid heavy haze in Beijing on Feb. 21, 2014. /Reuters

 First 'Orange' Pollution Alert as Smog Rolls into Beijing:  The orange level, the second highest, advises schools and kindergartens to cancel outside sports classes, but falls short of ordering school to close and keeping government vehicles off the road, provisions which come into force with the "red" level.                                           


   Some residents welcomed the announcement. Others asked why more was not being done. "Excuse me, but do the PM2.5 measurements have to explode off the charts before we see a red alert?" said a user of weibo, China's twitter-like microblogging service.


China’s pollution hits critical stage






A policeman gestures as he works on a street in heavy smog in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on Oct. 21.


 
200,000 people die every year in China because of air pollution.

Beijing's Pollution Alarms Neighbors, environmental secrecy angers public and the world






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