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When will China have a clear plan tackling Beijings smog?
2015-12-10 15:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In February, a Chinese documentary called Under the Dome was leaked online and threatened to shake up Chinas environmental status quo. Likened to An Inconvenient Truth, the film by journalist Chai Jing recounted the story of her daughters health complications, which were attributed to air pollution. Chai also got political, citing environmental research and calling for government leaders to take action. A viral video was born. Teachers showed the film in Chinese classrooms. Office workers watched...
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Living in Beijing's smog: 'It's extremely uncomfortable'
2015-12-09 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Beijings authorities have issued an air pollution red alert. People have complained of dry throats, bleeding noses and respiratory problems. Almost half of the Chinese citys 5m cars have been banned from the roads, schools and nurseries have been shut and construction sites closed down. But many Beijing residents doubt the alert will help combat the blanket of smog
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Beijing's red alert is a sign that China must act on climate change
2015-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Beijing's first-ever "red alert" signaling dangerously unhealthy levels of smog on Tuesday and Wednesday is putting pressure on the Chinese delegation at the U.N. Climate Summit in Paris, a meeting also known as COP21. The goal of the summit is to agree to a global climate treaty that would, for the first time, reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized nations as well as developing countries. One of the biggest developments in the run-up to COP21 was China's two agreements with the U.S....
China vacuum-cleaner artist turning Beijing's smog into bricks
2015-12-01 15:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: s the latest coal-fuelled airpocalypse engulfed northern China this week and world leaders gathered in Paris to debate the fight against climate change, Nut Brother hit the streets of Beijing hoping to raise awareness of his countrys deadly smog crisis. For the last 100 days, the activist, whose real name is Wang Renzheng, has used the industrial appliance to extract dust and other lung-choking pollutants from the citys atmosphere before transforming them into a dark brown smog brick. I...
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Beijing's smog is toxic for China's politicians
2015-01-20 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The smog is back and the threat of another airpocalypse hangs heavy over Beijing. Late last week, PM2.5 readings hit 550 micrograms per cubic meter, more than 20 times higher than the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended limit of 25g/m. Theres no mystery to the cause of this soupy, polluted, metallic-tasting concoction that makes up the capitals air: fossil fuel combustion. Three decades of industrialisation have brought a prosperity to China that those living under Mao would have...
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