A five-day pollution ‘red alert’ has been announced in China’s capital, Beijing, and other cities, with schools closed, roads blocked, and residents told to stay indoors. Over 20 more cities are also said to be affected. The warning came into effect on Friday at 4:20pm, as the main Chinese news agency tweeted “Smog invades Beijing,”…
Smog-sucking towers in the Chinese capital city have filtered 10 Beijing National Stadium’s worth of air and have removed billions of harmful PM2.5 particles out of the polluted atmosphere that millions of Chinese citizens are exposed to every day, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The seven-meter tall towers constructed in The Netherlands have…
Air pollution plaguing areas surrounding India’s capital city was at one point so bad in early November that it could be seen from space. NASA satellite images taken last week reveal a thick blanket of grey smog stretching hundreds of miles from the Pakistani cities of Faisalabad and Lahore, to the Indian capital New Delhi….
