Air Pollution in Beijing At Record Levels

In recent days, the pollution in the Beijing air has reached record levels, with the PM2.5 levels surging past the U.S. Embassy’s maximum reading of 500 to reach close to 900. (PM2.5 refers to particulate matter that measures smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter.) Anything between 301-500 ...
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  1. Pollution score: Beijing 993, New York 19 – Quartz says:
    January 14, 2013 at 9:28 AM

    [...] readings from the @BeijingAir Twitter feed from the US Embassy’s air monitoring [...]

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  2. Pollution and Plausible Undeniability « Débrouillard says:
    January 15, 2013 at 5:51 AM

    [...] above which sharing of my knowledge and opinions might be considered of use to anyone else. But this weekend’s airpocalypse has thrown me for a loop–not in its severity, but in how the media reaction has actually [...]

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