A severe sandstorm has swept across Beijing and several northern provinces in China, blanketing the region in thick clouds of orange dust and sending air pollution soaring to hazardous levels ...

Beijing is launching a new police force aimed at tackling its persistent smog problem. This comes after a month of particularly severe air quality that left the capital and dozens of other Chinese ...

As China’s political and cultural capital, Beijing’s heady dynamism attracts a diverse population of ambitious, passionate people. There are quiet streets lined with persimmon trees, and leafy ...

China's smog problem 19 photos. BEIJING - Beijing issued its first-ever red alert for smog on Monday, urging schools to close and invoking restrictions on factories and traffic that will keep half ...

China's government has vowed to cut pollution here this week by as much as 40 percent. ... Hazardous smog blights Beijing 27 photos. Last month, Beijing marathoners ran in hazardous smog.

China Smites Smog With an Iron Fist Capital residents breathe easier as factories are shut and coal use is curbed Pigeons fly in clear skies above Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Jan. 1.

Under China’s current anti-smog plan, over 3.6 million households in Beijing, Tianjin and 26 other cities in northern China will have had their coal-fired heating systems converted to healthier ...

BEIJING, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Beijing was once again shrouded in smog on Saturday after several days of heavy pollution which have plagued China’s capital during the Lunar New Year national holiday.

Beijing parents, facing air pollution alerts, ... Experts say China’s air pollution exacts a tremendous toll on human health. According to a 2013 study in the British medical journal the Lancet, ...

It's tempting to conclude that China's supposedly "can-do" government will find a way to clean up Beijing's air. Yet, according to an assessment by research house Gavekal Dragonomics, the problem ...

Chen has lived in Beijing her whole life. "Smog is still part of our daily lives," she ... said China's recent air pollution figures show cleaner energy infrastructure is having an impact in ...

Smog comes, you don a mask and stay inside as much as possible, and smog goes. China is actually pretty good at controlling it when it matters—when world leaders were in town for APEC’s annual ...