Stifling smog conditions in Beijing and other major cities in China this week closed schools and factories and forced people to wear masks in the streets. It's a condition eerily similar to the famous ...

Pollution-weary residents of smog-hit Beijing turned to black humour to help cope with gruelling conditions Tuesday as a large swathe of China was covered by a thick blanket of haze for a sixth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past weeks, many parts of Delhi recorded an air quality index (AQI) well over 400 – a level considered “severe” under ...

As my colleague Emily Rauhala wrote earlier today, the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, close to the border with Russia, is suffering through some truly horrible air pollution. And given that this ...

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Now the main challenges lie in regional disparities, increased coal-chemical use and VOC emissions China’s new national air quality standards set in March by the environment ministry require annual ...

Just weeks before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chinese authorities restricted half of all private cars from the city's roads, alternating daily bans for number plates ending in even and odd numbers. The ...