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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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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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International study: Where there's smoke or smog, there's climate change
2013-01-15 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Hannah Hickey hickeyh@uw.edu 206-543-2580 University of Washington In addition to causing smoggy skies and chronic coughs, soot - or black carbon - turns out to be the number two contributor to global warming. It's second only to carbon dioxide, according to a four-year assessment by an international panel. The new study con…
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Beijing smog continues as Chinese state media urge more action
2013-01-14 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China's state media have called for environmental improvements in unusually frank discussions of the country's pollution problem, as thick smog continues to shroud Beijing and other cities. Stores sold out of masks and the capital implemented its new pollution emergency response plan for the first time after visibility plummeted at the weekend. Several construction sites were ordered to halt work, factories slowed production and authorities ordered a curb on the use of government cars. Schools...
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Pressure mounts on China to tackle smog crisis
2013-01-14 14:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: China's closely controlled state media has today joined the chorus of calls for the government to take greater action to tackle air pollution, as record levels of smog continued to afflict Beijing and several other large cities. The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Centre confirmed yesterday levels of harmful PM2.5 had reached more than 600 micrograms per square metre in many areas, far in excess of the World Health Organisation's safe guideline limit of 25 micrograms. The US Embassy's...
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