Last month Beijing's air pollution soared past levels considered hazardous by the World Health Organization. Prior to that, the government often played down the pollution in Beijing, insisting it ...

On questions around the rising trend of anti-aging movements, Dr Bishen stressed that a healthy lifespan, focused on ...

Beijing, with a yearly average air quality index (AQI) of 144, was as polluted in 2015 as Delhi is today (Delhi’s average is 155 for 2024). But in the interim, Beijing has managed to cut its ...

The claim: The Chinese government says that Beijing's air quality improved sharply in the winter of 2017. Reality Check verdict: The air quality this winter has been better - but whether or not ...

BEIJING -- Beijing has been expanding its green spaces with new parks built and more trees planted in 2024, government ...

TOXIC air pollution in China's capital city, Beijing, is now so bad it resembles nuclear winter, Chinese scientists have warned. Pollution is even impeding photosynthesis in plants, something that ...

Beijing achieved remarkable improvements in air quality last year, setting two historic records with the highest number of ...

The progress China is making towards cleaning its air has once again been thrown into focus with the publication of the third ...

the story has put a fresh spotlight on air quality in cities across Asia. Beijing has long been notorious for its smog - but statistics show that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have worse air by far.

Beijing’s choking air pollution, general grittiness, and the bluntness of many of its residents can be a jolt to the system. But it’s a jolt to be embraced in a city offering unlimited reward ...

What truly made the difference, as highlighted in Siddharth Singh's 2018 book, The Great Smog of India, was that Beijing succeeded by elevating air pollution to the highest political priority.