– Update 1/31/12: The story online has been corrected with a correction issued. Kudos to the NYT for ensuring even a minor mistake like this gets fixed. – Two days ago, the New York Times...
Among all the recent PM2.5 news, this chart from an early January CCTV report caught my eye: I couldn’t find this data on the Beijing EPB website to verify, so if anyone out there does find an ...
On January 6th, the Beijing EPB made a major announcement regarding the plan for monitoring and reporting PM2.5 this year. This is huge and terrific news, with most media sites characterizing the ann...
Each year for the past few years around this time, I’ve posted an overall summary of Beijing’s annual air quality (links to 2010, 2009, 2008). Although I’ve had less time this year ...
At times over the past few months, I have feared that the US Embassy might cave in to diplomatic pressure and close down their BeijingAir Twitter feed. At first I was worried about the recently wikil...
Every once in a while, the world’s spotlight focuses on Beijing’s air pollution, turning up the heat on the low simmer of anger, frustration, and confusion over the air quality here and t...
In January of this year, Beijing experienced unprecedented air quality, with all 31 days being Blue Sky Days (”good” or “excellent” air quality). At the end of the month, Du S...
As I was writing my post yesterday, Xinhua English pubished a short piece on this week’s heavy pollution episode in Beijing: BEIJING – Heavy fog with a visibility of around 1 km persisted...
Fresh off its unexpected best month of air quality since 1998, Beijing plunged head first this week back into mashed potato air quality. Mashed potato (scientific term, I promise) air looks like this...
The LA Times reported yesterday on a new study suggesting that cancer risks for people living in Beijing would be halved if the air quality were consistently as good as it was during the Olympic Game...
Beijing’s longest streak of consecutive Blue Sky Days ended last Thursday after an unprecedented 43 days. It was a wonderful start to 2011: the cleanest January since 1998 and average air quali...
Beijing’s incredible streak of consecutive Blue Sky Days continues, standing now at 40 days. (Past coverage here and here.) As I noted in my last post, what we are experiencing is not merely so...
Great news! Today is Beijing’s 36th consecutive Blue Sky Day, a day whose Air Pollution Index (API) is 100 or below, indicating “excellent” or “good” air quality. As far...
Over the past few weeks in Beijing, the air quality has seemed uncharacteristically good. In fact, Beijing has had 25 consecutive Blue Sky Days – days for which the Air Pollution Index has been...
Happy New Year! For each of the past two years around this time (link to 2008, link to 2009), I’ve posted a summary of the previous year’s air quality in Beijing. This post contains some ...
Last week, the China National Environmental Monitoring Center (CNEMC) began hourly air quality reporting in 113 cities in China. (Previous posts here and here.) Data for individual monitoring station...
Earlier today, I posted the fantastic news about the beginning of real-time air quality reporting in Chinese cities. Because the site is currently in Chinese only, I’ve quickly translated the f...
Wow, HUGE news today regarding air quality reporting in China: China’s National Environmental Monitoring Center has begun reporting hourly air quality data at over 2,000 individual monitoring s...
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