Blog Tag - Air Pollution

China's Air Quality Improving, Greenpeace Says
It's not just Beijing air quality that's getting better. Apparently the spate of air pollution reduction is spreading throughout China, as Greenpeace...
It's Official: Beijing Air Was Cleaner in the First Half of 2015
The blue skies of June may be here to stay: Beijing's air was cleaner in the first half of 2015, as efforts to reduce air pollution begin to take...
Report: Ozone is Beijing's New Pollution Threat
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the air. Ozone is the primary airborne health hazard during summer, and Beijingers should be more...
Where’s Your Filter? Protect Yourself from Air Pollution 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...
More on Beijing's Airenaissance: When The Air’s Bad, and When It’s Good
[Update June 8] Updating this as a friend pointed out that I made a critical error in equating the US Embassy PM 2.5 data, which is reported in µg/m³...
So Far Beijing Has 42% Less of Polluted Days than Last Year
No, you're not imagining things: Beijing's air has indeed been remarkably better so far this year. On Thursday, Beijing's Environmental Protection...
Clear the Air: Talking Pollution with Dr. Richard Saint Cyr
Dr. Richard Saint Cyr and his wife, Joanna Wang, moved from San Francisco to Beijing in 2006 and welcomed their son Alex to the family over two years...
Air Bubble to Protect People from Toxins Debuts Next Month in Beijing
Next month Beijing will debut a new air bubble that provides a shield for people from up to 70 percent of pollutants, Bloomberg reports. The device,...
Glass Half Full: Beijing's Air Getting Better, Says Greenpeace
Glass half full: Greenpeace, that regular purveyor of bad news on how we humans are destroying our environment, has actually sounded a note of...
Car Exhaust Now Officially Blamed for Beijing's Pollution
After trying to blame chuan'r grills and factories in Hebei, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has cited car exhaust as the leading cause of...
Freeair takes Portable Air Filtration to the Next Level
A new American startup with offices in China is taking the standard air filter to the next level, with a portable, battery operated filtration system...
CBD's Biggest Smokestack is No More as Coal-Fired Boiler Plant is Shuttered
One of downtown Beijing's most visible smokestacks is now no longer belching emissions into the CBD sky. The Guohua Power Plant, whose looming...
Chai Jing's Environmental Documentary 'Under the Dome' Goes Off the Air
[Update 3/11: News magazine Caixin is hosting the film locally. Click here. H/T Kaiser Kuo.]  In less than a week, former China Central Television...
Deep Breath: Heavy Smog Predicted for Friday and Saturday
Here we go again. For the first time since Chai Jing's Under the Dome anti-pollution documentary took China by storm last week, Beijing is likely to...
Where to Watch Chai Jing's Pollution Documentary "Under the Dome"
[Update 3/11: Chinese news magazine Caixin is hosting the film locally. Click here. [Update 3/7: local hosting of this documentary has now been...