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 ...

Faced with worsening air quality and hazardous fine dust levels, Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment is ...

China’s heavily polluted capital, Beijing, plans to reduce air pollution levels by 15 percent by 2015 and 30 percent by 2020 through phasing out old cars, relocating factories and planting new forests ...

China’s notoriously unbreathable air is improving, while Jakarta is in danger of out-smogging Beijing, data from air monitoring stations all over the world has revealed. Half of the world’s 50 most ...

Several cities like Beijing, Seoul, South Korea, and Rybnik in Poland have successfully improved their air quality through stricter regulations on pollution from vehicles, power plants ...

Beijing has instituted a ban on unauthorized fireworks in the city in recent years to reduce air pollution, but with only moderate success. A paramilitary police officer stands guard on Tiananmen ...

The study also found that if the government simply brought air pollution down to its already agreed national standards, "41 premature deaths per 100,000 people could be avoided". Beijing appears ...

Beijing said it would implement traffic control measures if the capital activates its highest air pollution warning. Heavy smog has engulfed the country’s north for a few days while autumn ...

The pollution that circulates the air and water of the globe is changing ... air quality something more tangible. "People can say Beijing makes their throat burn, or Mexico City tastes sulphurous ...

"Beijing's air quality is probably not yet up to what the world will be expecting from an Olympic hosting city," said Lo Szeping of Greenpeace. Doctors say high levels of pollution can hurt ...