"dire pollution" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express a serious environmental problem. For example, "The dire pollution from nearby factories has caused serious health and environmental issues in the neighborhood."
In an age of industrialization, dire pollution, and frequent food scares, the Dragon Well Manor is committed to offering its guests a kind of prelapsarian Chinese cuisine.
Until recently, China's dire pollution problems and woeful record on wildlife conservation meant it would have been an unlikely champion of nature.
Uncounted millions of Chinese, from the rich cities of the east to the impoverished countryside, are pushing an inflexible political system for redress over issues from shoddy health care and illegal land seizures to dire pollution and rampant official corruption.
BEIJING, Aug 11 (Reuters) - China plans to accelerate investment in technology to save energy and tackle the dire pollution blamed for a series of health crises that have generated widespread public anger.
If the San Joaquin Valley sets up and operates a successful, equitable system in which everyone contributes and everyone gains, other regions with dire pollution problems will want to use the model.
After harvest, they would normally burn this agricultural waste, inedible to people and animals, to clear fields for wheat crops, as farmers across India do, and in that way contribute to the country's dire air pollution.
This virtual blank check for the fracking industry would worsen not only the already dire air pollution situation in the area but also threaten the irrigation water supply in a county that, along with the rest of the Central Valley, produces 35percentt of the nation's fruit and vegetables.
Smog continues to plague much of China, and there are increasingly dire reports about water pollution, food pollution and soil pollution.
It is difficult to understand why the last mayoralty decided to cover it up and not fully release it in 2013 – they clearly didn't want Londoners to know the dire state of pollution in the capital.
The question has become a hotly debated point in Tehran in recent months, as the city grapples with two truly dire problems: air pollution and traffic congestion, both some of the world's worst.
A spokeswoman for Khan said: "It is difficult to understand why the last mayoralty decided to cover it up and not fully release it in 2013 – they clearly didn't want Londoners to know the dire state of pollution in the capital".
