Photo by Nicolò Lazzati on Flickr.com. This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. By Angel Hsu and Carlin Rosengarten Last year was the hottest year on record — and by a wide margin, too. By early summer atmospheric CO2 concentrations silently ticked...
This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Beijing, the most liveable city in China? “The best joke all year,” said Weibo user Ren Fei. Not intended as a joke, Beijing emerged as the most liveable Chinese city in the Economist Intelligence Unit...
A new documentary on China’s air pollution problem by a former CCTV journalist has gripped the Chinese public and is forcing the government to own up to the severity of its environmental challenge. If you haven’t seen it already, a new 103-minute...
This post originally appeared on China Dialogue. The photo is by Han Zun Zeng on Flickr.com. China’s leaders drafting the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) should remember that targets are only one tool for tackling air pollution. As China’s policymakers mull the...
(Hsu et al/The Atlantic) View full-screen mapBy Angel Hsu and Alisa Zomer. This post initially appeared on The Atlantic. In March, the World Health Organization estimated that air pollution was responsible for 7 million premature deaths in 2012. That’s one out of...
My friend Yang Chu alerted me to a recent update Meitu, the most popular Chinese photo-editing app, has made. It now includes a “desmog” filter that one can apply to photos to allow an embrace of “blue skies.” I tested the app using several...
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