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Shanghai's Choking Smog Registers 'Beyond Index'
2013-12-06 20:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: In the latest smog-related health scare in China, officials in Shanghai on Friday ordered schoolchildren to stay indoors, halted all construction and even delayed flights in and out of the city, which has been enveloped in a thick blanket of haze, reducing visibility in places to less than 150 feet. NPR's Frank Langfitt reports from Shanghai that the commercial capital's Air Quality Index soared above 500 for the first time ever, according to government sensors. He says officials described the readings...
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