KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Air quality and snow conditions are regarded as two of the major challenges for Beijing's bid for 2022 Winter Olympic Games, but on Tuesday, the city's bid officials gave an answer and solution to all the concerns, promising clean air an......
Beijing, along with Tianjin Municipality and Hebei province, a region referred to as Jingjinji, are bonding together to improve the air quality for the September military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.Standard of the air quality will be s......
BEIJING - Nearly 75 percent of China's big cities failed to meet air quality standards in June, the environment ministry said on Monday, an improvement over the same month last year, as the country continues to wage "war on pollution."Nineteen cities met air quality stan......
A recent social survey by the municipal government found that most Beijing residents put addressing air pollution as top environmental priority in the next five years.The 13th Five-Year-Plan compiling work leading group office of Beijing government released the results o......
The nation's greenhouse gas emissions could peak at most five years earlier than expected, the annual blue book on China's low-carbon economic development said on Thursday.Greenhouse gas emissions are likely to peak between 2025 and 2030, according to the Global Low-carb......
China's capital city Beijing has witnessed several days of blue sky in the past week, which led to photos of the unusual phenomenon becoming a hit on social media.Authorities say more measures will be taken to maintain the so-called "Beijing Blue".People have been sharin......
BEIJING -Addressing lawmakers during a bi-monthly session of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, environment minister Chen Jining said stricter enforcement of tough environmental laws was a key factor in curbing air pollution.One year after the world......
The 2010 Global Burden of Disease project (GBD 2010, published in the Lancet on December 15, 2012) has found that outdoor air pollution in the form of fine particles is a much more significant public health risk than previously known ? contributing annually to over 3.2 m......
China is losing a life-or-death battle to bring toxic smog under control and the government may have drastically underestimated the magnitude of the coming health crisis, new research suggests. The latest alarm, which was sounded as the skies turned brown and the unoffic......
Location:Beijing, ChinaBeijing’s January 13, 2013 air pollution episode drew international media attention when PM2.5 levels spiked to 1000 ug/m3—almost 30 times the standard in the US, and well above the 300 ug/m3 threshold the China Air Quality Index considers “heavil......
