When winds blow the wrong way, vast fires can lead to air-quality dangers in cities such as Fairbanks — earlier this month, smoke caused a "hazardous" air-quality rating, and many outdoor activities in the area were canceled.
Prelaw data indicated that 85% of the restaurants had poor to hazardous air quality, with the average venue having 'unhealthy' air according to Michigan's Air Quality Index for PM2.5.
Gottlieb and Ng document how each has dealt with challenges posed by ports and the movement of goods, air pollution (Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and urban China are all notorious for their hazardous air quality), water supply (all three places are dependent on massive transfers of water) and water quality, the food system (from seed to table), transportation, and public and private space.
Beijing's air quality has dominated media headlines over the recent weeks with scores of articles demonstrating public concern over hazardous air quality.
Hazardous air quality levels were measured in Seeley Lake, Mont., for the first time since 2009, for a total of 18 days.
Some 70,000 buildings where troops lived and worked were not up to code, according to the engineer, who told a Congressional hearing of "some of the most hazardous, worst-quality work I have ever inspected".
China's hazardous air quality stems mainly from its dependence on coal, which, despite massive expenditure on renewable energy projects, remains the country's default fuel.
The Butte County Air Quality Management District reported "hazardous" air quality in Paradise, where the fire started, and in nearby Chico, Oroville and Gridley.
Locke denied speculation in Chinese social media that his family had been sent home because of Beijing's notoriously hazardous air quality.
The death toll from these latest fires will never accurately be known because the elderly, the young, the sick and the frail will die prematurely because of the heart and lung conditions aggravated by the hazardous air quality.
