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Beijing cough
Environment; Pollution
Beijing cough is a respiratory illness that many expats and overseas visitors experience while staying in Beijing or other Chinese cities. Symptoms often include itchy throat and persistent dry ...
Miasma
Environment; Pollution
Noxious vapours from decomposing organic matter polluting the atmosphere; foreboding, unwholesome or oppressive atmosphere. Miasma is also related to the ''miasma theory'', which prevailed during ...
Dioxin
Environment; Pollution
Any of several persistent toxic heterocyclic hydrocarbons that occur especially as by-products of various industrial processes
Landfill
Environment; Pollution
An area of land where garbage and trash are buried between layers of dirt. This area has sheets of plastic around the garbage.
Contamination
Environment; Pollution
To make a substance or place dirty or no longer pure by adding a substance that is dangerous or carries disease
Recycling
Environment; Pollution
The act of treating things that have already been used so that they can be used again
