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Cutting traffic pollution alone could worsen Taiwan's haze

Taiwan's air has gotten measurably cleaner over the past decade, yet in many towns the hazy, milky-white sky that blurs mountains and city skylines has not cleared at the same pace. A research team led by Prof. Ta-Chih Hsiao from the Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering at National Taiwan...

Cutting traffic pollution alone could worsen Taiwan's haze
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Taiwan's air has gotten measurably cleaner over the past decade, yet in many towns the hazy, milky-white sky that blurs mountains and city skylines has not cleared at the same pace. A research team led by Prof. Ta-Chih Hsiao from the Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering at National Taiwan University set out to find out why.

Originally published at Phys.org

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