Posts tagged Air Quality
Video: Sensors Strapped to Kites Search for Clues in Beijing’s Dirty Air
Two U.S. graduate students design kites with sensors that can easily monitor Beijing’s air quality and send data back to the people on the ground.
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Photos: Watch Beijing’s Air Quality Get Worse and Worse and Worse and …
As the “airpocalypse” continues in northern China, we check in with Michael Zhao, founder of Asia Society’s China Air Daily website project, to see if there are any signs of hope.
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But when the issue is the thick haze that hangs over China’s growing cities, harming the health of their residents, condemning U.S. diplomats for providing air pollution information is only going to further alienate the public.
As the Chinese government accused the U.S. Embassy of illegally interfering in China’s domestic affairs by publishing online hourly air-quality, the increasingly skeptical Chinese public ridiculed its government for its outrage, write Susan Shirk and Steven Oliver.
To read the full story: Dirty Air and Succession Jitters Are Clouding Beijing’s Judgment
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Photo of the Day: Shy But Poised in Tamil Nadu, India
Four young girls smile for the camera in Tamil Nadu, India on February 18, 2012. (...
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At Women’s Wear Daily’s Beauty CEO Summit 2012, Revlon head Alan Ennis argued that China is now past its prime as a place for manufacturing.
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