Blog Tag - Air Pollution
Apparently actress/singer/zombie Cher doesn't read the Beijinger, and we're not sure whether that's good or not. If Cher did, then she'd know that...
I’ve been living in Beijing now since 2008. I remember when those who wore facemasks were the strange-looking passersby. I remember when everyone I...
The World Health Organization's (WHO) office in Beijing announced Tuesday its support of the Beijing Municipal Government's decision to issue its...
In an unprecedented move, a number of schools from Beiing’s international school community were closed today. The decision came late yesterday...
It's not often we wish for higher AQI but beer (specifically, IPA) fans might be when they hear this piece of news: In the wake of Beijing's first...
Air filters can be expensive, and by the time you get it the airpocalypse will be over, right? Most of us put off buying a machine that's so...
As smog blankets the city today, leaving the AQI at an off-the-scale 553, Beijing’s parents are left to wonder how they should best safeguard their...
I guess in a way it sort of looks almost beautiful. As if snow, like a butt-load of tiny, tiny and ever-so-slightly grey snowflakes were all stuck...
Anyone considering a job posting in Beijing must consider the problem of air pollution. Though the latter shouldn’t be taken lightly, rest assured...
Editor's note: Given the ongoing spell of pollution in Beijing over the last few days and particularly Monday (today), we present again this fine...
This may seem like a particularly bad time to bring this up given the AQI readings have been hovering in the upper 200s all afternoon, but Beijing's...
This is probably not the weather from which you wanted to return from a holiday. Anyway, a nasty pollution spell is blanketing the capital, and here...
A couple of years ago, we and quite a few others poked fun at a Dutch artist's pie-in-the-sky project to build a smog-eating tower that would then...
Ah, Berkeley, The Economist: These words ooze credibility at their very core. So when a recent article in The Economist cited a study by an...
Expect a lot more blue sky days like today because automobile usage restrictions are going into effect beginning August 20, according to the Xinhua...