Blog Tag - Air Pollution
It's not just Beijing air quality that's getting better. Apparently the spate of air pollution reduction is spreading throughout China, as Greenpeace...
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...
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...
Anyone considering a job posting in Beijing must consider the problem of air pollution. Though the latter shouldn’t be taken lightly, rest assured...
[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...
No, you're not imagining things: Beijing's air has indeed been remarkably better so far this year.
On Thursday, Beijing's Environmental Protection...
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...
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: Greenpeace, that regular purveyor of bad news on how we humans are destroying our environment, has actually sounded a note of...
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...
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...
One of downtown Beijing's most visible smokestacks is now no longer belching emissions into the CBD sky.
The Guohua Power Plant, whose looming...
[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...
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...
[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...