Sunday, August 8, 2010

World Blog: From Russia with smoke

Image: Residents set grass on fire to form a barrier for new wildfire outbursts, outside the village of Korovino, Russia

By Irina Tkachenko, free-lance producer

We don't trust the air we cannot see or chew.

The line familiar to Los Angelenos decades ago came to mind as I woke up on Wednesday night in my Moscow apartment, heavy-headed and yearning for a breath of fresh air, and looked out the wide-open window. The street below was bathed in a milky substance, diffusing light from lamps and completely obscuring the buildings across. Cars -- I knew they were cars, though all I saw were blurry bright dots in the milk -- were crawling along the highway not two hundred yards away. Smog?

Read the rest here.

Related story:

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