Blog Tag - Air Quality

Top Air Filters for Under RMB 1,000: Dr Richard's Self-Tests Show Cheap Models Do Well Too
Following his in-depth tests on the best pollution masks last year, Beijing-based physician, blogger, and obsessive air filtration tester Dr Richard...
Fireworks Contributes to Pollution, But Next Few Days’ Air Quality Excellent
The fireworks on the fifth day of the Lunar calendar (chuwu, last Sunday) proved a bit too much for the sky too handle. Throughout the day, there...
Beijing's AQI: How Bad Is It and What Can Be Done to Protect Your Home?
In the past six years that I have lived in Beijing, air quality has become an increasingly popular topic of discussion. The government can regulate...
Jing A's New Apocalypse Brew
After its initial launch,on May 3, Jing A's new brew, Airpocalypse Double IPA, is creating quite the stir on the web with a rather Beijing-specific...
Toil and Trouble: Architecture Firm Proposes Bubbles for Beijing Parks
Nothing like a picnic under the dome to create that feeling of being on another world, right here in Beijing. That's at least what the architects at...
Bad Air Causes Brain Drain in Half of Companies Polled
It's official: Beijing's bad air is causing a brain drain. Nearly half the companies polled in the American Chamber of Commerce in China's recently...
Beijing's Neighboring Hebei Province Snags 7 of Top 10 Slots in China's Worst Air List
  The good news: Beijing is not one of the Top 10 worst cities for air in China. The bad news: Neighboring Hebei Province contains 7 of the worst 10...
10 Great Ways to Solve Beijing's Pesky Air Pollution Problem
Mad scientists are afoot to tackle Beijing's pollution problem, as evidenced by a recent report in which notoriously unreliable cloud seeding and...
China to Close Coal-Burning Plants by 2017
The Atlantic thought that September 11 was a good time to peg a story about Beijing air quality to whether or not the air at the World Trade Center'...
AQI under 50: Another Day of Healthy Air
Masks off. The AQI made a sudden jump from an unhealthy average of 196 this morning to a very healthy 38 at 2pm this afternoon. This is the second...
Breathe It and Weep: Greenpeace Finds Out What, Exactly, is Going into Our Lungs
We all know that Beijing's noxious air is filled with nasty carcinogens that are bad for you, but Greenpeace has revealed just how bad the air we...
Pollution Evolution: The Latest in Mask Technology
We've been talking about the air quality in Beijing a lot lately (if you don't know why, just take a look outside), but it's always a bit of a sigh...
Pollutant Problem: Beijing's Air Isn't Getting Better
It's yet another gray day today - twistedly appropriate weather for the news that pollutants in Beijing's air have gone up almost 30 percent in the...
Beijing's Pollution Levels: The Worst in the Solar System?
Have you considered leaving Beijing as a result of this year's frequently terrible pollution? Researchers at the Environmental Petroleum Institute...
It’s Electric: Beijing's Traffic Plans Could Mean Changes for Air Pollution
If you’ve been brave enough to take China's driver's license test and score permission to cruise the ring roads, this is for you: The Beijing...