China’s capital city woke up to dust-choked skies on March 15 as it experienced what its weather bureau has called the worst sandstorm in a decade. The thick dust shrouded Beijing’s iconic landmarks, including the Forbidden City, and downtown skyscrapers at times disappeared from view, enveloped by clouds of sand from the intense sandstorm. Traffic ...
The COVID-19 outbreak has made face masks a part of our daily lives. In China, face masks were used for an interesting reason prior to the pandemic — to cover the faces of statues as a sign of protest against China’s high levels of pollution. Statues and face masks It was around 2014 that the ...
COVID-19 has spread rapidly around the world and has limited people’s outdoor activities substantially. Air quality is therefore expected to be improved due to reduced anthropogenic emissions. However, in some megacities, air pollution has not improved as expected and severe haze episodes still occurred during the COVID-19 lockdown. A research team led by Prof. SUN ...
The Wuhan coronavirus outbreak has brought China to a standstill. Factories are empty, roads are desolate, shops are closed, and people keep themselves to their homes. While this does look dire, there is one unexpected, positive side effect — the air in China is far cleaner than it used to be. Air pollution in China The ...
A potent ozone-depleting substance from eastern China has been found as ongoing significant emissions by researchers from the University of Bristol. The compound, carbon tetrachloride, contributes to the destruction of the Earth’s ozone layer, which protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation. As a result, the production of carbon tetrachloride has been banned throughout the world ...
Committed to addressing the country’s severe air pollution, China is attempting a shift from coal to natural gas and is considering a variety of sources, including domestic and imported gas options, as well as creating its own synthetic gas from coal. A team of researchers led by Princeton University investigated the environmental impacts of transitioning ...
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