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In war on smog, struggling China steel mills adapt to survive
2014-10-30 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Chinese steel mills, among the biggest in the world, are altering their production schedules to offset disruption from forced plant closures aimed at curbing choking air pollution during a summit of world leaders in Beijing next month. The move shows how steel mills in the world's top producer and consumer are adapting to the periodic shutdowns enforced by Beijing. Dozens of steel mills in industrial areas straddling the capital are set to shut from Nov. 1 to cut smog before leaders, including...
Beijing residents use humour as defence against smog
2014-10-13 17:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As air pollution levels soared once again in Beijing and other parts of northern China last week to lung-choking levels, some residents vented their frustration through humour. On social media outlets some Beijing residents made jokes about the lack of visibility as a thick layer of smog blanketed the city. I think I am blind once I pull back the curtain, joked a user on the Weibo microblogging website. Another said it was like flying an airplane instead of his electric scooter because I...
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Beijing Raises Smog Alert as Pollution Envelops North China
2014-10-10 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Beijing raised its air pollution alert to orange, the second-highest level, triggering limits on some industrial production as smog enveloped northern China for a second day. The concentration of PM2.5, fine particulates that pose the greatest risk to human health, was 445 micrograms per cubic meter at 5 p.m. near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center said on its website. The WHO recommends 24-hour exposure to PM2.5 at concentrations no higher than 25....
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Smog in India Damaged Enough Crops to Feed 94 Million, Study Says
2014-09-06 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Ground-level ozone, the main component of smog, damaged 6.7 million tons of Indian crops worth an estimated $1.3 billion in a single year, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters. That's enough wheat, rice and other staple crops to feed 94 million people roughly one-third of the country's impoverished population. Arising from a combination of vehicle emissions, cooking stoves, and industrial sources, plant-damaging ozone has left many of India's fast-developing cities...
South Korea delays smog tax; starts emission trading in 2015 - finance minister
2014-09-02 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: South Korea has delayed a proposed tax on vehicle carbon emissions by over five years to the end of 2020, but confirmed it would push ahead with plans to begin its carbon emissions trading scheme from the start of 2015, finance minister Choi Kyung-hwan said on Tuesday. The finance ministry said in a meeting with other ministers that the so-called smog tax, which has already been postponed by more than two years, would place too much of a burden on industry if it was launched at the same time as...
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