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Pollution over China Blows out to Sea: Image of the Day
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Pollution over China Blows out to Sea: Image of the Day
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The atmosphere is a globally shared natural resource, and this image from the seawifs.gsfc.nasa.go v Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) illustrates the point. A pool of air pollution has spread out over eastern China and then slipped over the coast like water over a dam. A river of haze flows across the East China Sea past the Korean Peninsula and northeastward toward Japan, where it arcs along the western coastline of the island chain before disappearing out of the scene at upper right. Rapidly developing China is the world's second largest consumer of energy (the United States is first), and its primary fuel is coal, most of it burned in inefficient power plants that emit large amounts of carbon emissions and sulfur dioxide, which is the precursor to acid rain. Increasing affluence in the country is also giving rise to a vehicle boom. As cities become more and more clogged with cars, skies become more and more clogged with automobile emissions. Scenes such as this one from October 22, 2004, are not uncommon for this region. With the typical Northern Hemisphere oWesterlies flowing from west to east across the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, the air pollution from eastern China regularly spreads to South Korea and Japan and out over the Pacific Ocean. Trans-boundary pollution occurs in many places across the globe, and most nations are simultaneously sources of pollution for countries odownwind, and recipients of another country's pollution.
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The atmosphere is a globally shared natural resource, and this image from the seawifs.gsfc.nasa.go v Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) illustrates the point. A pool of air pollution has spread out over eastern China and then slipped over the coast like water over a dam. A river of haze flows across the East China Sea past the Korean Peninsula and northeastward toward Japan, where it arcs along the western coastline of the island chain before disappearing out of the scene at upper right. Rapidly developing China is the world's second largest consumer of energy (the United States is first), and its primary fuel is coal, most of it burned in inefficient power plants that emit large amounts of carbon emissions and sulfur dioxide, which is the precursor to acid rain. Increasing affluence in the country is also giving rise to a vehicle boom. As cities become more and more clogged with cars, skies become more and more clogged with automobile emissions. Scenes such as this one from October 22, 2004, are not uncommon for this region. With the typical Northern Hemisphere oWesterlies flowing from west to east across the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, the air pollution from eastern China regularly spreads to South Korea and Japan and out over the Pacific Ocean. Trans-boundary pollution occurs in many places across the globe, and most nations are simultaneously sources of pollution for countries odownwind, and recipients of another country's pollution.
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Where -- Japan
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Where -- Japan
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Where -- United States of America
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Where -- United States of America
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Where -- Pacific Ocean
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Where -- Pacific Ocean
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Where -- Korea
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Where -- Korea
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Where -- China
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Where -- China
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Where -- East China Sea
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Where -- East China Sea
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Japan
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United States of America
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United States of America
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Pacific Ocean
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Pacific Ocean
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Korea
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China
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East China Sea
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East China Sea
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echinasea_sea_200429 6
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echinasea_sea_200429 6
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gwilliam@archive.org
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gwilliam@archive.org
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2011-07-03 03:52:49
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2011-07-03 03:52:49
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2011-07-03 03:52:49
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2011-07-03 03:52:49
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NASA -- Image courtesy the seawifs.gsfc.nasa.go v/SEAWIFS.html SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
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NASA -- Image courtesy the seawifs.gsfc.nasa.go v/SEAWIFS.html SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 107/1/echinasea_sea_ 2004296/echinasea_se a_2004296_lrg.jpg
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 107/1/echinasea_sea_ 2004296/echinasea_se a_2004296_lrg.jpg
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echinasea_sea_200429 6_lrg.jpg
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echinasea_sea_200429 6_lrg.jpg
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date:
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2004-10-22
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Public Domain
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Public Domain
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2004
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