Blog Tag - Air Pollution

Now Cher and the Sierra Club Are Parroting the 'Beijing Air/40 Cigarettes Per Day' Myth
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...
Laser Egg Comes to the Rescue with Eggxact AQI and Pollution Readings
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...
World Health Organization Applauds Beijing's Red Alert
The World Health Organization's (WHO) office in Beijing announced Tuesday its support of the Beijing Municipal Government's decision to issue its...
Smog Days: Beijing International School Closures and Updates
In an unprecedented move, a number of schools from Beiing’s international school community were closed today. The decision came late yesterday...
Wishing for a Higher AQI?: Jing-A Lifts Cap on Airpocalypse IPA Discount
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...
Looking for an Air Filter? Find a Second-Hand Air Filter in Our Classifieds
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...
International Schools Fight Pollution Woes with Contingencies, Closures
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...
50 Shades of Gray: Instagram's Most Depressing Photos of the Airpocalypse
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...
Where’s Your Filter? Protect Yourself from Air Pollution in Beijing with Purifiers and Masks
Anyone considering a job posting in Beijing must consider the problem of air pollution. Though the latter shouldn’t be taken lightly, rest assured...
Eight Ways to Protect Your Living Spaces From Bad Air
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...
Despite What You See Outside Right Now, Beijing's Air Has Shown Exceptional Improvement in '15
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...
8 Ways to Protect Your Living Spaces from Bad Air
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...
Smog-Eating Tower Comes to Life, and May Be On It's Way to Beijing
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...
No, Living in Beijing is NOT Equivalent to Smoking 40 Cigarettes a Day
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...
Beijing to Switch to 'Odd-Even' Car Limitations August 20 through September 3
Expect a lot more blue sky days like today because automobile usage restrictions are going into effect beginning August 20, according to the Xinhua...