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......
MEP official revealed on Jan. 31 that the effects of large scale haze have worn off and air pollution in some cities has eased. By 10 a.m. on Jan. 31, air quality in the past 24 hours in Jinan, Xi’an and some cities was still measured at Grade VI air quality standard, an......
MEP Minister Zhou Shengxian met with a visiting delegation led by Governor of California, Jerry Brown, in Beijing on April 10. They exchanged views on issues of common concern and signed an Agreement on Strengthening Cooperation on Prevention and Control of Air Pollution......
The State Council on Wednesday issued a timetable for its program to upgrade fuel quality, aiming to implement a strict standard nationwide by 2017 in its latest bid to cut pollution.The country will issue the "5th-phase" standard for automobile petrol, with sulphur cont......
