The ignoble tale of somg, and fresh air

Recently, Delhi choked on severe smog emanating from the smoke from stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana, which turned the city it into a gas chamber. Let’s track some similar stories around the world.

1 It is a custom in this place to burn paper money at temples called as, “ghost money” or “spirit money paper for their Chungyuan Festival. Paper money burned each year range from 90,000 tons to 220,000 tons and causes severe air pollution including PM 2.5. Identify the place.

2 Michael Crichton’s 1975 book, The Great Train Robbery mentions this term. This term for toxic smog is a mixture of vehicular pollution and road dust. It is thick and often yellowish, greenish or blackish fog containing soot particulates and Sulphur dioxide. Identify.

3 The museum authority in the past years limited the number of visitors to this place as ‘Dust’, presumably from shoes, and carbon dioxide damaged the great paintings and turned them white like sugar icing. It was built under the direction of Pope Sixtus IV, who gave it his name (From “Sixtus”). Identify.

4 No place on earth had worse air pollution than this coal mining city of China. It was previously a charming farming community known as “The fruit and flower town”, known for its natural springs. Now this is the heart of coal belt, dotted with mines. Identify the city.

5 In ‘The Great Smog of 1952’, the use of coal with cold weather conditions formed deadly smog cover over this city. These five days of smog, lasting from December 5 to December 9, killed about 8,000 to 12,000 people and turned 100,000 ill. Identify the city.