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

The less good news is that the country's hell bent drive towards industrialization has brought in its train a host of collateral problems, not the least of which is pollution. Last month Beijing's ...

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 ...

In the capital, Beijing, at the weekend, air pollution soared past levels considered hazardous by the World Health Organization. The official People's Daily said the smog was a "suffocating siege ...

The latest round of air pollution began Friday and is expected to persist until Thursday, although it was supposed to begin easing on Monday. In Beijing flights were canceled at the city’s main ...

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 ...

Reports suggest, over 2.6 million people died due to air pollution in 2005. However, years later, reports suggest people in Beijing are breather cleaner air than earlier. Thanks to ...

Air pollution has caused an estimated 49,000 deaths and US$23 billion in economic losses in the cities of Beijing and Shanghai alone since January 1, 2020, according to a “clean air counter ...

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

Munich: Every winter, as smog blankets Delhi and its neighbouring regions, the irony is hard to miss. The city symbolising India's rapid development is also emblematic of its environmental crises.