Word: smog
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When regular paint dries, it can release compounds that contribute to smog and irritate your lungs. Benjamin Moore EcoSpec, above, can help keep the air cleaner. The upside: no new-paint smell. The downside: you'll pay up to $5 more per gallon...
...woman—with a fake tan that would shame Donatella Versace—made me lose much of my faith in the universe. It might be springtime, but that doesn’t mean board shorts and halter-tops. This isn’t California, where the convenient smog keeps the beaches insulated (and the children stunted). This is Boston, where the weather is downright unpredictable. Get the hell over...
...revolutionary will this be? If car sharing is to have a national impact on congestion, it must surmount a basic paradox: everyone hates traffic and smog, but few people are willing to give up their cars. In the U.S., as the saying goes, you are what you drive. And a half-century of highway subsidies has only fueled the sense of entitlement. According to a poll on traffic by TIME, ABC News and the Washington Post, only 10% of those surveyed who have access to mass transit actually use it regularly. "There's a stigma to not owning...
...toxic orange haze covering Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has finally been penetrated. Ending a seven-year, 3.5 billion-kilometer voyage, the Huygens probe touched down on Titan last week, giving earthbound gawkers their first glimpse of its icy surface. Early transmissions from the 350-kg probe revealed a smog-shrouded landscape of boulder-strewn plains, winding drainage channels, and dark pools that may contain liquid hydrocarbon. While it remains unclear whether the Huygens data on Titan, which has been likened to a frozen version of early Earth, can help answer the eternal question of how life evolved, scientists involved...
...Smog over Asia Wonderful story on air pollution [Dec. 13]. I have been in Hong Kong and Beijing a number of times on photographic assignments. My first time in Hong Kong, in 1997, I commented to my friends that the environment did not have a chance. In Beijing I was excited to see a lit Fujifilm sign out my hotel window at night. The next morning I could not even see the sign because of the pollution. At the Beijing 2008 Olympic Summer Games, the shot will not be of the runner crossing the finish line but the winner looking...