Blog Tag - red alert
Fresh on the heels of last week's false alarm comes another whopper: We're in for a red alert for bad air beginning at 8pm tomorrow (Friday) night,...
You think it's hard to guess whether tomorrow – or even this afternoon – will be polluted or not?
Seems that's the case with the Beijing...
Adjustments to Beijing's four-tiered emergency air pollution warning system take effect December 15, raising the threshold of the most dire alert but...
How far would you go to curry favor with China?
How about running through Tiananmen Square without a mask in this morning's thick-as-pea-soup AQI 337...
Five surrounding cities will join Beijing in a trial adjustment of the Air Quality Warning System that resulted in the declaration of two Red Alerts...
News reports over the weekend indicated that Beijing is still considering automobile restrictions using the odd-even license plate system, on which...
Ever since first advocating the use of 3M masks while exercising in Beijing, I’ve been a bit of a fetishist for the perfect personal anti-pollution...
Breathing masks are a necessity for Beijingers that prefer to avoid a gruesome pollution-induced death at an early age.
However, even the most robust...
We’re at the midpoint of Beijing’s first-ever red alert over bad air, and things are going as swimmingly as they could be given that we’re dealing...
The World Health Organization's (WHO) office in Beijing announced Tuesday its support of the Beijing Municipal Government's decision to issue its...
In an unprecedented move, a number of schools from Beiing’s international school community were closed today. The decision came late yesterday...