Afghanistan: In War-Weary Kabul, Burning Coal and Tires Keeps Residents Warm — and the City Choked by Smog

Jan 12, 2019 | Alex Horton and Sharif Hassan, Washington Post
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Afghanistan, long embroiled in conflict, has focused for the past 18 years on security and reconstruction at the expense of issues affecting the environment, according to current and former environmental officials. They say the government remains ill-equipped to curb the causes — such as coal consumption and vehicle exhaust — of Kabul’s thick haze.