Is Beijing's 'Heavy Fog' Really Smog?

December 07, 2011 from NTDTV

The unusually "heavy fog" that has been lingering over Beijing since the weekend is actually smog -- at least based on the air quality index readings from the US Embassy in China. The haze is so dense that visibility drops to about 30 to 60 feet in places, and it has been grounding flights and bringing traffic to a crawl. But Chinese authorities insist there is only "slight pollution."

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Beijing

Peking ist die Hauptstadt der Volksrepublik China und hat eine über dreitausendjährige Geschichte. Der Name bedeutet Nördliche Hauptstadt. Peking ist heute eine regierungsunmittelbare Stadt, das heißt, sie ist direkt der Zentralregierung unterstellt und damit Provinzen, autono... Explore this topic

Smog

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... Explore this topic

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Air Quality Index

An air quality index is a number used by government agencies to communicate to the public how polluted the air is currently or how polluted it is forecast to become. As the AQI increases, an increasingly large percentage of the population is likely to experience increasingly s... Explore this topic

Fog

Fog is a collection of liquid water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. While fog is a type of stratus cloud, the term "fog" is typically distinguished from the more generic term "cloud" in that fog is low-lying, and the moisture in th... Explore this topic

Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into a natural environment that causes instability, harm, or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light. Polluta... Explore this topic

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Sina Weibo is a Chinese microblogging website. Akin to a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook, it is one of the most popular sites in China, in use by well over 30% of Internet users, with a similar market penetration that Twitter has established in the USA. It was launched by SINA ... Explore this topic

Environment

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