Severe Air Pollution Spreads Across China During Lunar New Year Holiday

NICOLE HAO  |  EPOCH TIMES Amid the Lunar New Year holidays, severe air pollution in great swathes of China has caused major highways and roads to be closed due to poor visibility. During the week-long national holiday, most factories, mines, and companies in China are closed. There are also fewer cars on the road as families spend […]

1.1 Million Chinese Die of Air Pollution Every Year, Says Hong Kong Report

NICOLE HAO  |  EPOCH TIMES New research conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has concluded that two air pollutants, PM2.5, and ground-level ozone, are responsible for the annual deaths of 1.1 million people in China and economic damages worth 267 billion yuan ($38.8 billion). Air pollution also destroys 20 million metric tons […]

Complaints on Weibo Predict Chinese Air Pollution

Rice University This article was published on the Epoch Times  web site The social media comments of people in China’s megacities can give environmental scientists information about local pollution levels. A new study shows that the frequency of key words like dust, cough, haze, mask, and blue sky can be used as a proxy measurement of […]

Looking Back: 4 Broken Promises of the Beijing 2008 Olympics

<!–[CDATA[Irene Luo  |  Epoch Times In the 2001 bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the Chinese regime made grand promises to quell outcries about its human rights violations and environmental abuses. But in the years that followed, the Chinese Communist Party broke them all. 1. Press Freedom “We will give the media complete freedom […]

Beijing nearly ‘uninhabitable for human beings’ study says

<![CDATA[By Yves Dumas, Tuidang Center “Beijing is one of the most air-polluted cities on the planet, so much so that researchers from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences declared it to be almost ‘uninhabitable for human beings’ in a recent study. Buildings throughout the city are having to be outfitted with special air purifiers, and […]