FILMED over a five-hour period from the hills of Antipolo, you can see the gradual encroachment of smog choking Metro Manila in this time-lapse video.
Smog is a combination of smoke and fog. The smoke is caused by nitrogen dioxide and hydrocarbons emitted by motor vehicles. When this is warmed by the sun’s rays, a photochemical reaction occurs and smog forms.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has not measured smog since the late 80s. But it says that smog is a growing cause of concern, especially with more vehicles clogging the roads. Urbanization also means that there are now more households that emit hydrocarbons.
Producers: Avigail Olarte and Isa Lorenzo
Video editor: Francis Ventura
In this issue
- Power and poisons
- In search of green alternatives
- Cleaning up the ‘King’
- Harnessing the wind
- Photo gallery: The windmills of Ilocos Norte
- Building the breathing spaces
- Photo gallery: The house on M. Viola Street
- First person: Starting a ‘clean’ revolution
- Short-circuited reforms in the power sector
- A commission of power
- Toxins ‘R’ Us
- Podcast: Name that toxin
- A puff of a test
- Video: Toxic city
- What’s swimming in your soup?
- Waste not, want not
- Hazards of healthcare waste
- There’s something about mercury
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