Sentence examples for fire smog from inspiring English sources

Critics refer to it either as a laid-back "la-la land" or, conversely, as a place reeling from earthquakes, fire, smog, gang warfare, and riots.

When John and a handful of young visionaries opened NRDC in 1970 -- raw sewage floated through our cities, waterways were so polluted they caught on fire, and smog hung so heavily that skyscrapers and nearby mountains were routinely obscured.

Satellites in orbit at 5,000 and 23,000 miles above the earth collect intricate weather data, but the information can be distorted by solar storms, asteroid showers, forest fires and even smog.

Watching the work of Wayne McGregor, with whom Carter regularly collaborates, it's sometimes impossible to separate the movement from the light: the mysteriously glowing halos that enclosed the dancers in 2012's Carbon Life; or the pixelated colouring in 2013's Atomos that took its cast through smog and fire into suspended celestial space.

Seth Mydans (NYT) SINGAPORE: HAZE RETURNS -- Once again, the annual smog from fires in Indonesia set mostly by illegal loggers and planters drifted over Singapore, smudging the skies and tinging the air with the scent of woodsmoke.

These fires produce a thick smog and release a huge volume of greenhouse gases.

But recurrent and worsening smog the result of car exhaust, fire smoke, dust, sand and more trapped in the mist, especially over the big cities is far deadlier.

First came the region-wide financial collapse and environmental disaster the haze of smog from forest fires on Sumatra and Borneo.

Fittingly, this week they were shrouded in the annual "haze" of smog from forest fires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Robbers in boats who once whizzed along city creeks have been chased away.Efforts are being made to stir up civic pride and reduce the smog caused by fires, by collecting rubbish and waste more reliably.

Russia is also keen to sell China more weaponry.Singapore hosted a 13-nation exercise in the South China Sea to practise stopping vessels suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction under the American-sponsored proliferation security initiative.Choking smog from forest fires in Sumatra enveloped Kuala Lumpur and other Malaysian cities.