World’s biggest flying lab comes to Asia on air pollution mission

Thai PBS World - Starting this week in the Philippines, the US agency’s DC-8 is flying for up to eight hours at a time — sometimes just 15 metres (50 feet) from the ground — to swoop up air particles for study...

The project, named ASIA-AQ, is a collaboration between the US agency and governments in a region with some of the highest air pollution-linked death rates in the world.

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