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Learn how pollution from industrial emissions and car exhaust is trapped against mountains to cause smog
Smog formation and entrapment over Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles smog
A pall of photochemical smog over Los Angeles in November 2016. Photochemical smog,...
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smog over a village in India
Smog over a village in Punjab state, India.
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Los Angeles smog
Smog over Los Angeles, 2019.
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A thick layer of smog hovering over Santiago, Chile. The mountains that confine the...
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