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China: Beijing smog documented by film-maker - video
2013-01-22 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Li Feifan discusses his 40-minute documentary Future Armageddon, screened on Chinese TV this week. It features multiple images of the same city skyline submerged in different levels of smog. Li spent two months filming in the city, including earlier this month when pollution levels were 30 to 45 times above the recommended safety levels
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China: Beijing vows to tackle 'excessive' growth in car ownership
2013-01-22 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The Chinese government yesterday unveiled a series of commitments designed to tackle the smog crisis engulfing Beijing, including controversial plans to force 180,000 old vehicles off the streets. Speaking at the opening of the annual session of the city's legislature, Beijing's Mayor Wang Ashun vowed that the authorities would undertake ambitious measures to "speed up the construction of a beautiful city with blue skies, green earth and clean water". He said the government would ban 180,000...
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Beijing plans industrial shutdown rules as smog crisis continues
2013-01-21 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Chinese factories and coal-fired power stations could soon face further rolling shutdowns, as the government battles to get a hold on the smog crisis that has gripped the capital Beijing. The government had hoped that rain and snow would disperse the smog that has blanketed the city since last weekend, but an index monitoring of PM2.5 particulates revealed that it still stood at 400 in some parts of the city - down on last week's record score of 755, but still well above levels deemed hazardous...
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China plans emergency measures to control Beijing air pollution
2013-01-20 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Beijing is to unveil unprecedented new rules governing how China's capital reacts to hazardous air pollution, the official Xinhua news agency said, as deteriorating air quality threatens to become a rallying point for wider political dissatisfaction. The rules will formalize previous ad-hoc measures, including shutting down factories, cutting back on burning coal and taking certain vehicle classes off the roads on days when pollution hits unacceptable levels. Air quality in Beijing, on many...
Beijing Grapples with Record Air Pollution
2013-01-18 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: FLORA LICHTMAN, HOST: Last weekend, air pollution levels in Beijing hit a record high, cloaking China's capital in a thick smog and forcing residents inside. The air quality index measures ozone, carbon monoxide and particles, basically the stuff in the air, and the scale - the index scale that we use for particulate matter here in the U.S. goes from zero to 500. If this reading goes up past 300, that's considered a health hazard. Well, last Saturday, monitors in Beijing recorded an air quality...
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