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Tag Archives: Ulan Bator
Mongolians send children into countryside to escape choking winter smog
Mongolia has extended school winter holidays in the world’s coldest capital and many families have sent children to live with relatives in the vast, windswept grasslands to escape choking smog and respiratory diseases such as pneumonia. The temperature is expected … Continue reading
Posted in Air Quality, Asia, Mongolia
Tagged Air Pollution, Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Ulan Bator, World Heath Organization (WHO)
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Air pollution can put a dent in solar power
Air pollution, especially in urban areas, can significantly reduce the power output from solar panels, and needs to be considered when design solar installations in or near cities. Ian Marius Peters, now an MIT research scientist, was working on solar … Continue reading
Posted in Air Quality, World News
Tagged Air Pollution, Beijing, Delhi, Dhaka, HAZE, India, Kolkata, Research, Singapore, Ulan Bator
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Mongolian air pollution causing health crisis: UNICEF
Smog in the Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, is causing a public health crisis, especially among children, with treatment costs likely to put the cash-strapped country under increasing strain, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said. The government needed to take urgent … Continue reading
Severe air pollution chokes Mongolia amid harsh winters
With thousands of families burning coal to survive in arctic temperatures, Mongolia is now home to the most poisonous air on the planet. Air pollution in China and India often makes international headlines, but in one country air quality is … Continue reading
Posted in Air Quality, Asia, Mongolia
Tagged Air Pollution, Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Ulan Bator
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Mongolian capital sees severe air pollution
The Mongolian capital city of Ulan Bator on Wednesday saw solid particles in the air reaching dangerous levels, with the most-polluted area registering an amount almost 13 times above the safety level set by the World Health Organization (WTO). There … Continue reading
Posted in Air Quality, Asia, Mongolia
Tagged Air Pollution, Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Ulan Bator
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Mongolia’s deadly air pollution chokes the ‘Land of Eternal Blue Sky’
A combination of extreme winter temperatures, poor infrastructure and urban sprawl in the Mongolian capital has created one of the worst cases of air pollution in the world At the end of a bright autumn day in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Pollution, Asia, Mongolia, Ulan Bator
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Mongolian capital to ban low-grade coal to ease smog
Mongolia will ban the burning of low-grade coal in its capital Ulaanbaatar within the next decade, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism said, as the country tries to curb toxic air pollution. Ulaanbaatar is one of the world’s most polluted … Continue reading
Posted in Air Quality, Asia, Mongolia
Tagged Mongolia, PM2.5, Ulaanbaatar, Ulan Bator, wood burning
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Toxic Smog in Mongolia’s Capital Worsens Amid Harsh Winter
On most winter mornings, Setevdorj Myagmartsogt wakes up to a cloud of toxic smog blanketing his neighborhood in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, where the air quality is among the worst in the world. The city’s air, which is at times … Continue reading
Posted in Air Quality, Asia, Mongolia
Tagged Air Pollution, Mongolia, PM2.5, Ulan Bator
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