Blog Tag - Airpocalypse
For the first time since new stringent air quality control measures were instituted in March of this year, Beijing has declared a Red Alert,...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
Glass half full: Greenpeace, that regular purveyor of bad news on how we humans are destroying our environment, has actually sounded a note of...
Chai Jing may have made the quintessential Beijing smog documentary, but artist Brian Foo has now provided the soundtrack to our smoggiest of days.
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If Los Angeles' skies were above Beijing’s, they’d rate among the cleanest in China. Or so one might infer from this recent report in the Los Angeles...
Most of us in Beijing are already conditioned to equip our homes with air filtration devices due to the city's deadly air – but how many of us...
The air outside may have reverted back to its usual levels of opacity, but at least the information about who, exactly, is responsible for emitting...
Like their American counterparts indicated in March, European businessmen in Beijing cite the city's notoriously bad air as the #1 problem in...
What with Beijing jockeying for pole position in the worst-air-on-earth sweepstakes, there's no depths we consider too low to sink to protect...
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...
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