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Nothing to Sniff At
Mexico City residents losing sense of smell, says research |
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04 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:56 PM on 04 Jun 2008 The air pollution in Mexico City is so bad that it could be harming residents' sense of smell, researchers say. People who live in the city, which exceeds the World Health Organization's ozone standards 300 days out of the year, did a worse job identifying common scents like coffee and orange juice than residents of a neighboring rural area. They also took longer to detect the smell o ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, health, Mexico, news (all these topics) |
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Moderately Bueno!
Mexico City air is a little better than it used to be |
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17 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Moderately Bueno! Mexico City air is a little better than it used to be Two decades ago, Mexico City's air was widely deemed the worst on the planet. Today, while the city of 20 million is still one of the world's most polluted, it's no longer top dog. (Several cities in China now dominate the charts.) A concerted effort to clear the Mexican capital's air led to the dismantling of a major oil refinery in 1991, the phaseout of l ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Mexico, news (all these topics) |
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