Blog Tag - PM2.5
With dining-in still a no go in the capital it can feel like there isn’t much good news going around at the moment, but there is one thing to...
Feast Your Eyes on Beijing's Blue Skies Now That We’ve Notched the Best Year for Clean Air on Record
As we roll into 2022 we’re proud to see that once again Beijing has set a new high water mark for clean air – the best year on record for all...
Yes, we get it, we’ve had a horrendous couple of weeks here in the capital, capping yesterday’s disastrously bad pollution that had air monitors...
Amidst all of this coronavirus nonsense, it’s time to pause, take a deep breath and celebrate: Beijing has dropped out of the list of the planet’s...
Though you wouldn't know it – based on the abysmally high AQI levels we've put up with over the past couple of days – the operation of Beijing's last...
In Beijing, few questions are more contentious than: "What is the main culprit behind our smog?" Some of us insist that vehicles are to blame, while...
If you think Beijing's horrendous pollution levels couldn't get any worse, then brace yourself for more bad news. Yep, the capital's dismal air...
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
We're past the two-month mark for 2017. How are we doing on the government's pledge to improve the air this year?
Not good.
According to Ministry of...
Seven out of 10 China residents are unhappy about smog and 71 percent claim to wear masks on smoggy days, a recent survey detailed in the Global...
Now that January 2017 is in the bag, how’d we do on air quality?
Not good.
Beijing’s monthly average AQI index, as reported by the Ministry of...
Beijing's PM2.5 concetration reached a mere 647 micrograms per cubic meter at its peak during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) celebrations, down 7...
Congratulations, contemporary Beijing residents: You now have new pollution bragging rights, as you have survived the worst week of air on record...
Fresh on the heels of last week's false alarm comes another whopper: We're in for a red alert for bad air beginning at 8pm tomorrow (Friday) night,...
In news that will shock basically no one, officials in several cities in China have been caught embezzling funds earmarked for pollution control – ...