Interactive Air-Pollution Map

(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...
28,000 rivers disappeared in China – What happened?

28,000 rivers disappeared in China – What happened?

This post originally appeared on The Atlantic.  Government officials say it’s been caused by statistical inaccuracies and climate change. But is that the whole story? By Angel Hsu and William Miao As recently as 20 years ago, there were an estimated 50,000...
Hello, is this thing on?

Hello, is this thing on?

My friend Daniel Ng alerted me to this James Fallows piece on poor Beijing air quality that has sent netizens a-flurry over the recent streak of bad air. Fallows included the typical photographic evidence of smoggy Beijing skylines as a reference. I think Fallows...
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