Breathe Deeply in the Polluted Air that is Moscow

Moscow looks like a lovely place to live. (Photo by Alexander Petrenko)

Russia’s Capital City is an expensive (34.4 more expensive than NYC) dirty place to live. World Front Page has it:

Over the past two years escalating numbers of vehicles on the roads put a stifling strain on the environment. Today Moscow has nearly 3,000,000 cars. Gray-brown noxious haze of smog covers the streets filled with jam-packed traffic, which blows out tons of unhealthy exhaust fumes of carbon monoxide and other harmful chemicals. Additionally there are 12 huge heat power stations, 53 district heating stations and 3,000 industrial enterprises still operating within the city borders. As a result concentrations of harmful substances often exceed maximum allowable by 10-20 times.

Link [World Front Page]

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