Triple Increase Air Alert: Vientiane, Provinces Among Latest To Bear Brunt of Regional Smog Crisis
What’s been up with (and in) the air we breathe? Smoggy haze and deteriorating air quality has seen folks in Laos’ capital and beyond reaching for face masks, air filters and measuring equipment.
What they have found has been enlightening and disturbing. Air quality over much of Laos & Northern Thailand has taken a major dive with high levels of airborne particulate matter visible to the naked, eye-obscuring vision and respiration around the capital and beyond.
Multiple factors including local and transboundary emissions adding to high ambient levels propelled by air currents and atmospheric pressure are likely to be contributing to the ongoing malaise that knows no borders.
The Laotian Times
