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Thick brown layer of smog obscures the Los Angeles skyline, with city buildings and neighborhoods visible beneath a blue sky.
New York City skyline tinted orange from wildfire smoke.
Side-by-side world maps show global nitrogen dioxide emissions for 2005 and 2018, with color intensity indicating higher pollution levels, based on NASA satellite data.
Learn how pollution from industrial emissions and car exhaust is trapped against mountains to cause smog
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How Is Air Quality Measured?
Even something as simple as breathing can get complicated.
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Learn how pollution from industrial emissions and car exhaust is trapped against mountains to cause smog
Smog formation and entrapment over Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles smog
A pall of photochemical smog over Los Angeles in November 2016. Photochemical smog,...
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Changes in global nitrogen dioxide emission patterns between 2005 and 2018.
Pungent and extremely volatile, nitrogen dioxide is a dangerous air pollutant associated...
Images: Trent L. Schindler/NASA Scientific Visualization Studio; Interactive: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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