Smog Shrouds Eastern China
China suffered another severe bout of air pollution in December 2013. When the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this image on December 7, 2013, thick haze stretched from Beijing to Shanghai, a distance of about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles). For comparison, that is about the distance between Boston, Massachusetts, and Raleigh, North Carolina. The brightest areas […]
NASA – New Map Offers a Global View of Health-Sapping Air Pollution
NASA – New Map Offers a Global View of Health-Sapping Air Pollution.