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CCTV News
| Feb 8, 2013
Beijing continues to be inundated with smog as Chinese New Year approaches, and the fireworks that will be set off to mark the occasion will only make things worse. City officials are considering a ban on fireworks, but as state-run CCTV New repor...
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CCTV News
| Jan 30, 2013
Beijing's municipal government has told 103 high polluting factories in and around the city to either stop production or cut it considerably. They are also cutting the use of government vehicles by 30 percent. But as CCTV News reports, the factori...
LinkAsia
| Jan 18, 2013
Last week's pollution was considered the worst in Beijing's history, putting more pressure than ever on the government to revamp its environmental policies. LinkAsia speaks with Zhou Rong, an expert on climate and energy for Greenpeace China, abou...
LinkAsia
| Jan 18, 2013
China's worsening air pollution has mirrored the rise in car traffic and the cultural shift away from bicycles. But as contributor Mark Dreyer found, bikes are making a comeback in Beijing. Wealthy residents are avoiding heavy congestion on the ro...
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CCTV News
| Jan 15, 2013
As cars dominate the roads and smog clogs the air, wealthy Beijing residents are returning to what used to be people's only mode of transportation. As CCTV News reports, high-end bicycles are becoming the trendy way for Beijing residents to get ar...
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CCTV News
| Jan 15, 2013
China's online retailers reported that half a million protective masks were sold over the weekend, with masks protecting against PM 2.5 selling particularly fast as major cities witnessed off the charts pollution levels. State-run CCTV News report...
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MBC
| Jan 14, 2013
Much of South Korea is suffering from severe air pollution this week, with particle levels in major cities more than twice as high as normal. South Korean broadcaster MBC reports that high atmospheric pressure and heavy winds that have blown smog ...
NewsX
| Nov 5, 2012
A thick smog has descended on Delhi for more than a week, creating serious respiratory and other health problems for residents. The usual pollution is exacerbated by nearby farm fires and a weather system that's not moving out the grime, say exper...
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| Aug 16, 2012
VBS travels to the single most polluted place on earth, the coal-mining town of Linfen in Shanxi Province, China, where kids play in dirty rivers and the sun sets early behind a thick curtain of smog.
— May 5 at 05:27 am
...and cause numerous ailments. This topic is rarely given the attention that it deserves. One component of air pollution that is largely unaddress...
— last Tuesday at 10:59 pm
...is May-September. Scientists have said that there is no safe level for and amount of smog, and that all smog is bad whenever it is around you. T...
Smog is a type of air pollution; the word "smog" was made in the early 20th century as a portmanteau of the words smoke and fog to refer to smoky fog. The word was then intended to refer to what was sometimes known as pea soup fog, a familiar and serious problem in London from the 19th century to the mid 20th century. This kind of smog is caused by the burning of large amounts of coal within a city; this smog contains soot particulates from smoke, sulfur dioxide and other components. Modern smog, as found for example in Los Angeles, is a type of air pollution derived from vehicular emission from internal combustion engines and industrial fumes that react in the atmosphere with sunlight to form secondary pollutants that also combine with the primary emissions to form photochemical smog. The atmospheric pollution levels of Los Angeles, Mexico City and other cities are increased by inversion that traps pollution close to the ground.
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