“It is spectacular to watch an erupting volcano; but it is even much more spectacular to watch the rise of a newly exploding revolutionary idea!”Mehmet Murat ildan. I think to those of you who have watched some of the videos in my previous post, you would recall mental images of the Mt Pinatubo eruption looking …
Continue reading Feeling the Burn – Examining Outdoor Air Quality Affected by Mt Pinatubo’s Eruption
“I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter is to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped.” Israelmore Ayivor. Mt Pinatubo’s eruption was considered the second-largest volcanic eruption in the 20th century, …
“Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.”Andrea Gibson. In my previous series, I discussed and analysed the case study on Southeast Asian transboundary haze pollution – generally a man-made seasonal environment problem. Today, I will be starting another series that would be focusing more on Mt Pinatubo’s volcanic …
Continue reading A Hot Button Issue – A Prelude to Mt Pinatubo’s Eruption
“Never be so busy as not to think of others.”Mother Teresa. If I were to ask you, what your reaction when you first read the title of today’s blog post? Some of you might go ‘huh’, others might feel that this is an expected impact that air pollution would have on nature. And for me, …
“What a waste of a perfectly good planet.” Rae Knightly. We are done with exploring some of the problems, impacts and potential solutions for the case study on Southeast Asian transboundary haze pollution over our past few posts! I hope that you managed to find some connections between the concepts introduced in my first few …
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” John Muir. This has been one of the questions that I was curious about when I was researching for content to write on this blog, and I found some interesting videos that (surprisingly) showed some differing views! I will link some of them below, …
“Merely by living, man becomes degraded and loses in purity what he gains in power. However clear a spring may be, when it becomes a river it cannot help being polluted by mud and slime.”Maurice Druon. For today’s post, we will be examining the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution, which is a legally binding …
“We are walking along the path to extinction.” Steven Magee. Now that we have seen how haze pollution can affect the outdoor and indoor air quality, along with associated health problems, I will be discussing more on some of the local approaches taken by Indonesia and the neighbouring countries. In General Different countries have their …
“We harm our environment when we feel like harming ourselves, but not immediately.” Mokokoma Mokhonoana. Personally, I feel that this quote is very apt in describing the transboundary haze pollution relatively well! In my past few posts, I have introduced some of the aspects relating to the Southeast Asian haze pollution – from its causes …
“Global pollution is in the process of making places outside of the tropics hazardous to human health.”Steven Magee. From my past few posts, we investigated some of the causes of transboundary air pollution in Southeast Asia and the impacts of outdoor air pollution on Indonesia and its neighbouring countries. For today’s post, we will be …
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